cve/2004/CVE-2004-1316.md

CVE-2004-1316

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.

POC

Reference

• http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txt
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110436284718949&w=2
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9808

Github

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