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FreeBSD : leafnode -- denial of service vulnerability (b5ffaa2a-ee50-4498-af99-61bc1b163c00)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19091

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Matthias Andree reports :

A vulnerability was found in the fetchnews program (the NNTP client) that may under some circumstances cause a wait for input that never arrives, fetchnews 'hangs'. [...]

As only one fetchnews program can run at a time, subsequently started fetchnews and texpire programs will terminate. [...]

Upgrade your leafnode package to version 1.11.3.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-02.txt

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82056

https://marc.info/?l=vulnwatch&m=111827180929063

http://www.nessus.org/u?08049c1f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19091

File Name: freebsd_pkg_b5ffaa2aee504498af9961bc1b163c00.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:leafnode, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1911