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CVE-2004-1316

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2004-12-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla Mozilla

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References