CVE-2005-1453: Leafnode

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Leafnode Leafnode: version 1.9.48 only; version 1.9.52 only; version 1.9.53 only; version 1.10.0 only; version 1.11.1 only

Published 2005-05-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.