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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
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/32040 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.secniche.org/moz303.html x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31476 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.secniche.org/moz303/index.html x_refsource_MISC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6614 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496807/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496846/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://evilfingers.com/advisory/Firefox_User_Inte… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2008-09-28 00:00
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