Denial of Service Vulnerability in fetchnews NNTP Client

CVE-2005-1911 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The fetchnews NNTP client in leafnode 1.11.2 and earlier can hang while waiting for input that never arrives, which allows remote NNTP servers to cause a denial of service (news loss).

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