CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1316

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2004-12-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-12-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in MSG_UnEscapeSearchUrl in nsNNTPProtocol.cpp for Mozilla 1.7.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an NNTP URL (news:) with a trailing '\' (backslash) character, which prevents a string from being NULL terminated.

Affected configurations

• mozilla mozilla • mozilla mozilla 1.3 • mozilla mozilla 1.4 • mozilla mozilla 1.4.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.5 • mozilla mozilla 1.5.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.6 • mozilla mozilla 1.7 • mozilla mozilla 1.7.1 • mozilla mozilla 1.7.2 • mozilla mozilla 1.7.3

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