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

leafnode -- denial of service vulnerability

Affected packages
leafnode < 1.11.2

Details

VuXML ID 92248e4e-bd88-11d9-985a-00065bd5b0b6
Discovery 2005-05-04
Entry 2005-05-05

Two vulnerabilities were found in the fetchnews program (the NNTP client). These can cause the fetchnews program to crash when the upstream server closes the connection while leafnode is receiving an article header, or an article body.

References

URL http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-01.txt