CVE-2008-3444

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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."

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.0, 3.0.1

References

http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/07/30/low-risk-denial-of-service-in-firefox/
http://www.radware.com/newsevents/pressrelease.aspx?id=6459
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30486
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448564
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44169
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/07/30/low-risk-denial-of-service-in-firefox/
http://www.radware.com/newsevents/pressrelease.aspx?id=6459
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30486
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448564
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44169

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