Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0 Printing window.print resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is the function window.print of the component Printing. Executing a manipulation can lead to resource management. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-7244. Additionally, an exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0 (Web Browser) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function window.print of the component Printing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) by calling the window.print function in a loop, aka a "printing DoS attack," possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-0821.

The weakness was released 09/18/2009 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2008-7244 since 09/18/2009. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details and also a public exploit are known.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (12509). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-50125, VDB-50128, VDB-50127 and VDB-50126. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.8

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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OpenVAS ID: 900866
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox window.print() Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Linux)
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03/18/2015 +2007 days 🔍
02/21/2025 +3628 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2008-7244 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-7244
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-50116
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 02/21/2025 08:48
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (53), 01/20/2019 13:34 (1), 02/21/2025 08:48 (27)
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