CVE-2006-5633

N/A Unknown
Published: October 31, 2006 Modified: April 23, 2026
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Description

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-October/050416.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit
http://www.gotfault.net/research/advisory/gadv-firefox.txt
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450155/100/0/threaded
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450167/100/0/threaded
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450168/100/0/threaded
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450682/100/200/threaded
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452803/100/0/threaded
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20799
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358797
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213237
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29916
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-October/050416.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
http://www.gotfault.net/research/advisory/gadv-firefox.txt
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450155/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450167/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450168/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450682/100/200/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452803/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20799
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358797
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213237
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29916
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

22 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Affected Vendors

mozilla