CVE-2004-1316

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9808

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100052

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18711

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12131

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-06.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/19823

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780717916478&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110436284718949&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3