CVE-2003-0744
The fetchnews NNTP client in leafnode 1.9.3 to 1.9.41 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang and termination) via certain malformed Usenet news articles that cause
02 Description
The fetchnews NNTP client in leafnode 1.9.3 to 1.9.41 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang and termination) via certain malformed Usenet news articles that cause
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.84% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 78.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2003-09-06 04:00Z23 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 02:05Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2003-09-04
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3164d55aa9e9a9934b064348493ece00a1e219f55135cd35048145d0b812b938
05 Affected products
06 References
- archives.neohapsis.com20030903 leafnode 1.9.3 - 1.9.41 security announcement SA-2003-01http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/
- www.securityfocus.com8541http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8541
- secunia.com9678http://secunia.com/advisories/9678
- marc.info20030904 leafnode 1.9.3 - 1.9.41 security announcement SA-2003-01http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106270038210736&w=2
- leafnode.sourceforge.nethttp://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2003-01.txt
- www.osvdb.org6452http://www.osvdb.org/6452
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- leafnode Fixed in 1.9.42
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- leafnode Fixed in 1.9.42
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- leafnode Fixed in 1.9.42
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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