CVE-2008-5712

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-5712
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-12-24 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2017-09-29 01:32:00 UTC
DescriptionThe HTML parser in KDE Konqueror 3.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via (1) a long COLOR attribute in an HR element; or a long (a) BGCOLOR or (b) BORDERCOLOR attribute in a (2) TABLE, (3) TD, or (4) TR element. NOTE: the FONT vector is already covered by CVE-2008-4514.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kde Konqueror 3.5.9 All All All
Application Kde Konqueror 3.5.9 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Konqueror 3.5.9 (color/bgcolor) Multiple Remote Crash Vulnerabilities EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com
SecurityReason - Konqueror 3.5.9 (color/bgcolor) Multiple Remote Crash Vulnerabilities SREASON securityreason.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-01-19Joshua BressersRed Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as Konqueror to be a security issue.
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