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Status published
Medium
CVE-2004-1316
Heap-based buffer overflow in MSG_UnEscapeSearchUrl in nsNNTPProtocol.cpp for Mozilla 1.7.3...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-06.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780717916478&w=2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12131
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110436284718949&w=2
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18711
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100052
- http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txt
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9808
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-038.html
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Vulnerable Versions:
1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.6, 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 31st, 2004
Last Modified:
August 8th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.