CVE-2006-5633

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5633
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-10-31 22:07:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionFirefox 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 2.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1 beta All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Mozilla Firefox Range Script Object Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
[Full-disclosure] Firefox <= 2.0 crash af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.grok.org.uk Exploit
213237 – Firefox crash due to javascript-triggered NULL pointer dereference af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Vendor Advisory
SecPoint Cyber Security Vulnerability Scanning UTM Firewall WiFi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gotfault.net Exploit, Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
358797 – range.createContextualFragment() crash when range node is DocType af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Exploit
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2006-11-07Joshua BressersRed Hat does not consider a user-assisted crash of a client application such as Firefox to be a security issue.

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