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    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 (application crash) via an NNTP URL (news:) with a trailing '\' (backslash) character, which prevents a string from being NULL terminated.

    Published:Dec 29, 2004
    Last Modified:Apr 16, 2026
    EPS:Dec 31, 2004
    EPSS Score:0.04823
    CVSS Score:5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Mozilla
    Product
    Mozilla
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txthttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-038.htmlhttp://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txthttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-038.html

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2009-3014 (CVSS 4.3) — Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13 and earlier, 3.5, 3.6 a1 pre, and 3.7 a1 pre; SeaMonkey 1.1.17; and Mozilla 1.7.x and e…
    CVE-2009-3010 (CVSS 4.3) — Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13 and earlier, 3.5, 3.6 a1 pre, and 3.7 a1 pre; SeaMonkey 1.1.17; and Mozilla 1.7.x and e…
    CVE-2007-4039 (CVSS 9.8) — Argument injection vulnerability involving Mozilla, when certain URIs are registered, allows remote attackers …
    CVE-2007-3144 (CVSS 6.4) — Visual truncation vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibl…
    CVE-2007-1794 (CVSS 10) — The Javascript engine in Mozilla 1.7 and earlier on Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 might allow remote attackers to e…
    CVE-2006-6498 (CVSS 6.8) — Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the JavaScript engine for Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.1, 1.5.x be…
    CVE-2006-0292 (CVSS 7.5) — The Javascript interpreter (jsinterp.c) in Mozilla and Firefox before 1.5.1 does not properly dereference obje…
    CVE-2006-0496 (CVSS 4.3) — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.12 and possibly earlier, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and pos…
    CVE-2005-4685 (CVSS 6.4) — Firefox and Mozilla can associate a cookie with multiple domains when the DNS resolver has a non-root domain i…
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    References

    http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txt
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110436284718949&w=2
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780717916478&w=2
    http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
    http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-06.html
    http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-038.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12131
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18711
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100052
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9808
    http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txt
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110436284718949&w=2
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780717916478&w=2
    http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
    http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-06.html
    http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-038.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12131
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18711
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100052
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9808

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High