CVE-2005-1911: Leafnode

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The fetchnews NNTP client in leafnode 1.11.2 and earlier can hang while waiting for input that never arrives, which allows remote NNTP servers to cause a denial of service (news loss).

Affected products

• Leafnode Leafnode: version 1.9.19 only; version 1.9.20 only; version 1.9.21 only; version 1.9.22 only; version 1.9.23 only; version 1.9.24 only; …

Published 2005-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.