OpenBSD VuXML: Documenting security issues in the OpenBSD Ports & Packages Collection

leafnode -- denial of service vulnerability

Affected packages
		leafnode	<	1.11.3

Details

VuXML ID	3f283964-d905-11d9-b5e0-00065bd5b0b6
Discovery	2005-06-08
Entry	2005-06-09

The leafnode security page notes:

A vulnerability was found in the fetchnews program (the NNTP client) that may under some circumstances cause a wait for input that never arrives, fetchnews "hangs". This hang does not cost CPU.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CAN-2005-1911
URL	http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-02.txt