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CVE-2005-1453

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2005-05-05 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Leafnode Leafnode

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References