CVE-2004-1316
N/A
Published: December 31, 2004 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:07 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorMozilla
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (11)
x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txtMailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110436284718949&w=2Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_HP
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780717916478&w=2x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-06.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-038.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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