CVE-2006-5633

Published: 31 October 2006

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
firefox Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Released (1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.13~prepatch070731-0ubuntu1)
	edgy	Released (2.0.0.6+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10)
	feisty	Released (2.0.0.6+1-0ubuntu1)
	upstream	Released (1.5.0.9, 2.0.0.1)

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5633
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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