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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 The fetchnews client in leafnode is vulnerable to a denial of service condition triggered when the the client reads malformed Usenet articles.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2004-01 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=873149&group_id=57767&atid=485349 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.leafnode.announce/32 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6922570 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/a051a4ec-3aa1-4dd1-9bdc-a61eb5700153.html

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