National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5822
Original release date:01/02/2009
Last revised:01/05/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Memory leak in Libxul, as used in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and browser hang) via a long CLASS attribute in an HR element in an HTML document.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (01/19/2009)
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Red Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as Firefox to be a security issue.
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/mzff_libxul_ml.txt
External Source: MISC
Name: http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html