CVE-2008-5712 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in KDE Konqueror 3.5.9, where specially crafted HTML with excessively long COLOR, BGCOLOR, or BORDERCOLOR attributes within HR, TABLE, TD, or TR elements can cause the application to crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no authentication, leading to a partial availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code exists in ExploitDB, though the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.5.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:konqueror:3.5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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