Bug 524679 (CVE-2008-7244) - CVE-2008-7244 Firefox: DoS (hang) via "printing DoS attack"
Summary: CVE-2008-7244 Firefox: DoS (hang) via "printing DoS attack"
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2008-7244
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL: http://websecurity.com.ua/2456/
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-09-21 17:31 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-09-22 08:29:37 UTC
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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.
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