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CVE-2008-3444 (GCVE-0-2008-3444)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-08-04 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:37
VLAI
Summary
The content layout component in Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted but well-formed web page that contains "a simple set of legitimate HTML tags."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2008-07-30 00:00
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