CVE-2008-5822
Published: 2 January 2009
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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| jdstrand | CVEs in Firefox are tracked in the xulrunner source packages. The mapping of xulrunner sources to firefox is: xulrunner (1.8.0): firefox (1.5) - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS xulrunner (1.8.1): firefox (2.0) - Ubuntu 6.10 - 8.04 LTS xulrunner-1.9: firefox-3.0 xulrunner-1.9.1: firefox-3.5 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 10.04 LTS uses the embedded xulrunner and not the system xulrunner-1.9.2, so it is tracked in the firefox source package. based on packetstormsecurity.org, not a memory leak, but a large memory allocation due to '"A" x 20000000' for the class attribute in an HR element. Ignoring. |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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xulrunner Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
dapper |
Does not exist
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| gutsy |
Ignored
(end of life)
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| hardy |
Ignored
|
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| intrepid |
Ignored
|
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| jaunty |
Ignored
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| karmic |
Ignored
|
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| upstream |
Needs triage
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xulrunner-1.9 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
dapper |
Does not exist
|
| gutsy |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| hardy |
Ignored
|
|
| intrepid |
Ignored
|
|
| jaunty |
Ignored
|
|
| karmic |
Does not exist
|
|
| upstream |
Needs triage
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