Vulnerability in Leafnode
CVE-2005-1453
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.
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: 0.014 (72.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 72nd percentile — 72.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Leafnode — versions 1.9.48, 1.9.52, 1.9.53
References
- leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-01.txt (Patch)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0468 (vdb-entry)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2005-q2/0037.html (mailing-list, Patch)
- secunia.com/advisories/15252 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)