CVE-2006-5633

Firefox 1.5.0.7 and 2.0, and Seamonkey 1.1b, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating a range object using createRange, calling selectNode on a DocType node (DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE), then calling createContextualFragment on the range, which triggers a null dereference. NOTE: the original Bugtraq post mentioned that code execution was possible, but followup analysis has shown that it is only a null dereference.

CVSS v2.0 NVD

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

7.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 94th percentile

Published

2006-10-31

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2695

Security advisories

• http://www.gotfault.net/research/advisory/gadv-firefox.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450168/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20799

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry