CVE-2008-4324 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2008-4324?

CVE-2008-4324 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 29 Sep 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 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.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4324?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2008-4324?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4324 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2008-4324 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-4324 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hfq5-47x3-ghhc.