CVE detail
CVE-2004-1316 — CVE-2004-1316
Published 2004-12-29 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor mozilla · Product mozilla · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0345
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
88.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
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.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References