Upstream information

CVE-2008-5715 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 522942 [RESOLVED / UPSTREAM]

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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 MozillaFirefox Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 MozillaFirefox Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 MozillaFirefox Analysis
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 MozillaFirefox Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS MozillaFirefox Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS MozillaFirefox Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 MozillaFirefox Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS MozillaFirefox Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS MozillaFirefox Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS MozillaFirefox Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS MozillaFirefox Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 MozillaFirefox Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 MozillaFirefox Analysis

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 18:35:33 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 15:27:39 2025