CVE-2003-0744 Information

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.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/ http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2003-01.txt http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106270038210736&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/9678 http://www.osvdb.org/6452 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8541