Security Advisory
CVE-2004-1316
CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations
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.