CVE-2008-5822 (GCVE-0-2008-5822)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-01-02 19:00
Modified
2024-08-07 11:04
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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