National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3444
Original release date:08/04/2008
Last revised:09/11/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The content layout component in Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted but well-formed web page that contains "a simple set of legitimate HTML tags."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/04/2008)
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Red Hat does not consider this flaw a security issue. This flaw is not exploitable beyond causing the web browser to crash.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448564
External Source: XF
Name: firefox-contentlayout-dos(44169)
External Source: BID
Name: 30486
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.radware.com/newsevents/pressrelease.aspx?id=6459
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/07/30/low-risk-denial-of-service-in-firefox/