CVE-2008-4324 (GCVE-0-2008-4324)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-29 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:08
VLAI?
Summary
The user interface event dispatcher in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a series of keypress, click, onkeydown, onkeyup, onmousedown, and onmouseup events. NOTE: it was later reported that Firefox 3.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.5 is also affected.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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Date Public ?
2008-09-28 00:00
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