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FreeBSD Ports: leafnode

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

7 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following package is affected: leafnode CVE-2005-1453 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.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-01.txt http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/0468 http://secunia.com/advisories/15252 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7186974&forum_id=10210 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.leafnode.announce/52 http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/pipermail/leafnode-list/2005q2/000900.html http://www.fredi.de/maillist/msg00111.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2005-q2/0037.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/66dbb2ee-99b8-45b2-bb3e-640caea67a60.html

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