CVE-2004-1316

Mozilla < 1.7.3 - Denial of Service via NNTP URL Backslash Handling

Title source: llm

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 (11)

Core 11

Core References

Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/19823

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

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

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval

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

Exploit, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

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

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval

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

Exploit, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-038.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0345

EPSS Percentile 87.7%

Details

Status published

Products (11)

mozilla/mozilla

mozilla/mozilla 1.3

mozilla/mozilla 1.4 (2 CPE variants)

mozilla/mozilla 1.4.1

mozilla/mozilla 1.5 (4 CPE variants)

mozilla/mozilla 1.5.1

mozilla/mozilla 1.6 (3 CPE variants)

mozilla/mozilla 1.7 (6 CPE variants)

mozilla/mozilla 1.7.1

mozilla/mozilla 1.7.2

... and 1 more

Published Dec 29, 2004

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026