Vulnerability CVE-2005-1453
Published: 2005-05-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

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://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-01.txt
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0468
http://secunia.com/advisories/15252
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