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CVE-2005-1453

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2005-05-13 leafnode -- fetchnews denial-of-service triggered by transmission abort/timeout

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2005-1453
Phase Assigned(20050505)

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.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-01.txt
VULNWATCH 20050504 leafnode security announcement leafnode-SA-2005-01
VUPEN ADV-2005-0468
SECUNIA 15252