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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| leafnode / leafnode | 1.9.52 | 1.9.52.x |
| leafnode / leafnode | 1.9.48 | 1.9.48.x |
| leafnode / leafnode | 1.11.1 | 1.11.1.x |
| leafnode / leafnode | 1.9.53 | 1.9.53.x |
| leafnode / leafnode | 1.10.0 | 1.10.0.x |