CVE-2008-5822

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-5822 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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Red Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as Firefox to be a security issue.

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