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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2006-5633 EUVD-2006-5618GHSA-vwr8-5r39-5qmj

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 …

Published Oct 31, 2006 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Package: firefox-esr Ecosystem: Debian

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 firefox-esr 45.0esr-1 —
Debian 13 firefox-esr 45.0esr-1 —
Debian 12 firefox-esr 45.0esr-1 —

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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