CVE-2008-7245
Opera < 9.52 - Denial of Service via Window Print Function Loop
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2008-7245.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a DoS vulnerability in Firefox 3.6.3 and Safari 4.0.5 by recursively calling window.print() and window.open() in an error handler, causing the browser to crash. The exploit is triggered via a malicious HTML page with embedded JavaScript.
Description
Opera 9.52 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unusable browser) by calling the window.print function in a loop, aka a "printing DoS attack," possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-0821.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a DoS vulnerability in Firefox 3.6.3 and Safari 4.0.5 by recursively calling window.print() and window.open() in an error handler, causing the browser to crash. The exploit is triggered via a malicious HTML page with embedded JavaScript.