Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-06.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780717916478&w=2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12131
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110436284718949&w=2
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18711
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100052
- http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txt
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9808
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-038.html
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-06.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780717916478&w=2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12131
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110436284718949&w=2
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18711
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100052
- http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txt
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9808
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-038.html