CVE-2004-1316

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2004-12-29
Bugzilla:
1617407: CVE-2004-1316 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2004-1316 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (mozilla) RHSA-2005:038 2005-01-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (mozilla) RHSA-2005:038 2005-01-13

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