Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-5822 First vendor Publication 2009-01-02
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-08-08

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5822

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-01-09 Name : Firefox Browser Libxul Memory Leak Remote DoS Vulnerability - Linux
File : nvt/gb_firefox_mem_leak_dos_vuln_lin.nasl
2009-01-09 Name : Firefox Browser Libxul Memory Leak Remote DoS Vulnerability - Win
File : nvt/gb_firefox_mem_leak_dos_vuln_win.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
53307 Libxul CLASS Attribute Handling Memory Exhaustion DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-01-08 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201301-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
MISC http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html
http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/mzff_libxul_ml.txt
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47758

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2020-05-23 00:22:49
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2017-08-08 09:24:36
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2016-06-28 17:24:00
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2016-04-26 18:11:52
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2014-02-17 10:47:49
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2013-05-11 00:33:53
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