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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (7.04%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 7.04% probability · 94th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/seamonkey
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-October/050416.htmlExploit
- http://www.gotfault.net/research/advisory/gadv-firefox.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450155/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450167/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450168/100/0/threadedExploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450682/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452803/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20799
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358797Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213237Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29916
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-October/050416.htmlExploit
- http://www.gotfault.net/research/advisory/gadv-firefox.txtExploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450155/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450167/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450168/100/0/threadedExploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450682/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452803/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20799
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358797Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213237Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29916
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.