CVE-2004-1316
Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—
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.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Base score: 5
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 3.45%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 89
- Score date: 10/14/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-Other
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
Raw JSON (NVD)
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