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CVE-2004-1316

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2005-01-13	mozilla -- heap overflow in NNTP handler

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CVE-2004-1316 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2004-1316
Phase	Assigned(20041230)

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.

References

Source	Reference
BUGTRAQ	20041229 Heap overflow in Mozilla Browser <= 1.7.3 NNTP code.
MISC	http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txt
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-06.html
HP	HPSBTU01114
HP	HPSBUX01133
HP	SSRT5940
REDHAT	RHSA-2005:038
SUSE	SUSE-SA:2006:022
SUSE	SUSE-SA:2006:004
BID	12131
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100052
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9808
SECUNIA	19823
XF	mozilla-nntp-bo(18711)