CVE-2004-1316 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2004-1316 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 64571 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:022, published Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:07:34 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:36 2025