CVE-2008-4324

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The user interface event dispatcher in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a series of keypress, click, onkeydown, onkeyup, onmousedown, and onmouseup events. NOTE: it was later reported that Firefox 3.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.5 is also affected.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.0.3

References

http://evilfingers.com/advisory/Firefox_User_Interface_Null_Pointer_Dereference_Dispatcher_Crash_n_Remote_DoS.php
http://secunia.com/advisories/32040
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4321
http://www.secniche.org/moz303.html
http://www.secniche.org/moz303/index.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496807/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496846/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31476
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6614
http://evilfingers.com/advisory/Firefox_User_Interface_Null_Pointer_Dereference_Dispatcher_Crash_n_Remote_DoS.php
http://secunia.com/advisories/32040
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4321

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