Denial of Service Vulnerability in fetchnews NNTP Client

CVE-2003-0744 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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