Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-1453 - Unspecified vulnerability in Leafnode
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 5 |
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_66DBB2EE99B845B2BB3E640CAEA67A60.NASL description When an upstream server aborts the transmission or stops sending data after the fetchnews program has requested an article header or body, fetchnews may crash, without querying further servers that are configured. This can prevent articles from being fetched. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 18966 published 2005-07-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18966 title FreeBSD : leafnode -- fetchnews denial-of-service triggered by transmission abort/timeout (66dbb2ee-99b8-45b2-bb3e-640caea67a60) NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRAKE_MDKSA-2005-114.NASL description A number of vulnerabilities in the leafnode NNTP server package have been found : A vulnerability in the fetchnews program that could under some circumstances cause a wait for input that never arrives, which in turn would cause fetchnews to hang (CVE-2004-2068). Two vulnerabilities in the fetchnews program can cause fetchnews to crash when the upstream server closes the connection and leafnode is receiving an article header or an article body, which prevent leafnode from querying other servers that are listed after that particular server in the configuration file (CVE-2005-1453). Finally, another vulnerability in the fetchnews program could also cuase a wait for input that never arrives, causing fetchnews to hang (CVE-2005-1911). The updated packages have been patched to correct this problem. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 18676 published 2005-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18676 title Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : leafnode (MDKSA-2005:114)