CVE-2004-2068: Leafnode

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

fetchnews in leafnode 1.9.47 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang) via an empty NNTP news article with missing mandatory headers.

Affected products

• Leafnode Leafnode: version 1.9.25 only; version 1.9.26 only; version 1.9.27 only; version 1.9.28 only; version 1.9.29 only; version 1.9.30 only; …

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.