Heap-based Buffer Overflow in MSG_UnEscapeSearchUrl in nsNNTPProtocol.cpp

CVE-2004-1316 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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