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).
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http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-02.txt |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-09-17T03:59:11.966Z
Reserved: 2005-06-08T00:00:00Z
Link: CVE-2005-1911

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2005-06-09T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2005-1911

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