CVE-2004-1316

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.

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

3.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 88th percentile

Published

2004-12-31

Updated

2024-08-08

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txt

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2004-1315
• CVE-2004-1317
• CVE-2004-1306
• CVE-2004-1324
• CVE-2004-1305
• CVE-2004-1325