CVE-2006-5633

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5633 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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Red Hat does not consider a user-assisted crash of a client application such as Firefox to be a security issue.

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