CVE-2005-1911

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-06-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The fetchnews NNTP client in leafnode 1.11.2 and earlier can hang while waiting for input that never arrives, which allows remote NNTP servers to cause a denial of service (news loss).

Affected products

Leafnode: 1.9.19, 1.9.20, 1.9.21, 1.9.22, 1.9.23, 1.9.24 (+28)

References

http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-02.txt
http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-02.txt

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