CVE-2008-5715 Information

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via JavaScript code with a long string value for the hash property (aka location.hash). NOTE: it was later reported that earlier versions are also affected and that the impact is CPU consumption and application hang in unspecified circumstances perhaps involving other platforms.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/51032 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4807 http://websecurity.com.ua/3424/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506006/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32988 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47572 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7554