CVE-2005-1453

Publication date 5 May 2005

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
leafnode 7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

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