CVE-2008-5822
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.
- EPSS
- 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-399
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mozilla:libxul
References
- http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html
- http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/mzff_libxul_ml.txt
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47758
- http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html
- http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/mzff_libxul_ml.txt