CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0744

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2003-10-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-10-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The fetchnews NNTP client in leafnode 1.9.3 to 1.9.41 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang and termination) via certain malformed Usenet news articles that cause fetchnews to hang while waiting for input.

Affected configurations

• leafnode leafnode 1.9.19 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.20 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.21 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.22 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.23 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.24 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.25 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.26 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.27 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.29 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.30 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.31 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.35 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.36 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.37 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.38 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.39 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.40 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.41

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