CVE-2003-0744

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The fetchnews NNTP client in leafnode 1.9.3 to 1.9.41 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang and termination) via certain malformed Usenet news articles that cause fetchnews to hang while waiting for input.

Affected products

Leafnode: 1.9.19, 1.9.20, 1.9.21, 1.9.22, 1.9.23, 1.9.24 (+13)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/
http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2003-01.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106270038210736&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/9678
http://www.osvdb.org/6452
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8541
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/
http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2003-01.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106270038210736&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/9678
http://www.osvdb.org/6452
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8541

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