VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-1453

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.43%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-05-05
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV: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.

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