cve/2008/CVE-2008-5822.md

### [CVE-2008-5822](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5822)
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### Description

Memory leak in Libxul, as used in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and browser hang) via a long CLASS attribute in an HR element in an HTML document.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/mzff_libxul_ml.txt

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.