Bug 524679 (CVE-2008-7244)

Summary:	CVE-2008-7244 Firefox: DoS (hang) via "printing DoS attack"
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jhorak, stransky
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://websecurity.com.ua/2456/
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-09-21 17:31:57 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-7244 to
the following vulnerability:

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.

References:
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-7244
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/506328/100/100/threaded
http://websecurity.com.ua/2456/

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-09-21 17:33:01 UTC

Official statement from Red Hat Security Response Team regarding this issue:
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Red Hat does not consider a user-assisted hang (DoS) of a client application such as Firefox to be a security issue.