Vulnerability CVE-2003-0744
Published: 2003-10-20   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Leafnode -> Leafnode 

 References:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/
http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2003-01.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106270038210736&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8541
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