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TITLE:
leafnode Two Denial of Service Issues

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15252

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15252/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
leafnode 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/925/

DESCRIPTION:
Two issues have been reported in leafnode, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The problem is that the fetchnews program fails to properly handle if
an upstream NNTP server closes the connection when receiving an
article header or body. This causes the fetchnews program to crash.

This affects versions 1.9.48 through 1.11.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.11.2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2005-01.txt

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