CVE-2005-1453 Information

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.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2005-q2/0037.html http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-01.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/15252 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0468