Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2008-5715. PoCs published by Jeremy Brown.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This Perl script generates an HTML file that exploits a denial-of-service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 by setting an excessively long string to location.hash, causing a crash.
Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows Vista allows remote attackers 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.
Exploits (1)
This Perl script generates an HTML file that exploits a denial-of-service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 by setting an excessively long string to location.hash, causing a crash.