CVE-2003-0744

high

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8541

http://www.osvdb.org/6452

http://secunia.com/advisories/9678

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106270038210736&w=2

http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2003-01.txt

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2003-10-20

Updated: 2016-10-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High