CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
93.5%
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.