CVE-2008-3444 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2008-3444?

CVE-2008-3444 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 4 Aug 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-3444?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2008-3444?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-3444 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2008-3444 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-3444 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m3mc-w2qf-4wc3.