Vulnerability in Leafnode
CVE-2003-0744
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.018 (78.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Leafnode — versions 1.9.19, 1.9.20, 1.9.21
References
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/ (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/8541 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/9678 (third-party-advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2003-01.txt
- www.osvdb.org/6452 (vdb-entry)