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…

published December 31, 2004

CVSS
—
EPSS
3%
Percentile
88.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03449 · 88.9th percentile
Published
2004-12-31T05:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 31 DEC 05:00Z
    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…
    cvelistv5