CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-1453

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-05-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-05
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

fetchnews in leafnode 1.9.48 to 1.11.1 allows remote NNTP servers to cause a denial of service (crash) by closing the connection while fetchnews is reading (1) an article header or (2) an article body, which also prevents fetchnews from querying other servers.

Affected configurations

• leafnode leafnode 1.9.48 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.52 • leafnode leafnode 1.9.53 • leafnode leafnode 1.10.0 • leafnode leafnode 1.11.1

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