CVE-2005-1453

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-05 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Leafnode: 1.9.48, 1.9.52, 1.9.53, 1.10.0, 1.11.1

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2005-q2/0037.html
http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-01.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/15252
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0468
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2005-q2/0037.html
http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-01.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/15252
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0468

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