Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

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: 0.021 (79.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox — versions 3.0.5
Mozilla Libxul
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-399

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)