CVE-2006-5633 Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <45.0esr-1


low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 38.3% (98th percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-FIREFOXESR-1545786
  • published 31 Oct 2006
  • disclosed 31 Oct 2006

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 firefox-esr to version 45.0esr-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox-esr package and not the firefox-esr package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.