CVE-2006-5633
mediumpriority · track · 33EPSS 0.075 · 94 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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exploits (1)
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- EDB-2695Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7/2.0 - 'createRange' Remote Denial of Servicefunctional · exploit_db
affected products (4)
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also known as (2)
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sources
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references (22)
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- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-October/050416.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://www.gotfault.net/research/advisory/gadv-firefox.txtenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450155/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450167/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450168/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450682/100/200/threadedenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452803/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20799enisa_euvd
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