CVE-2008-5822 Information

Description

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.

Reference

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