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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100052 Date: 2007-04-23
Title: Mozilla Malicious news: Vulnerability
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.
Version: 5 Class: vulnerability
Status: ACCEPTED Reference(s): CVE-2004-1316
Family: windows
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows NT
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Product(s): mozilla
Thunderbird
Definition Synopsis:

OVAL is CVE Compatible