From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 08:39:59 CST

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TITLE:
leafnode Missing Header Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10590

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10590/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
leafnode 1.x

DESCRIPTION:
Toni Viemerö has identified a vulnerability in leafnode, allowing
malicious people to cause a Denial of Service.

The problem is that news messages with missing mandatory header lines
or missing body causes leafnode to hang indefinitely waiting for more
data. This allows malicious people to cause a Denial of Service.

Version 1.9.47 and prior is vulnerable.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.9.48:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57767&release_id=182196

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Toni Viemerö

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=208614

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