PT-2008-6767 · Mozilla · Firefox

Jeremy Brown · Published 2008-12-24 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-5715

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, potentially resulting in CPU consumption and application hang, via JavaScript code with a long string value for the location.hash property. This issue may affect other platforms and versions earlier than 3.0.5.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.0.5, consider disabling JavaScript execution until a patch is available to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5715

Affected Products

Firefox

References · 8

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/7554 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5715 · Security Note
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3424 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/506006/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47572 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/51032 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32988 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4807 · Note