CVE-2004-1316: Mozilla

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Mozilla Mozilla: any version; version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.5.1 only; …

Published 2004-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.