CVE-2004-2645

Unspecified vulnerability in ASN.1 Compiler asn1c before 0.9.7 has unknown impact and attack vectors when processing "CHOICE" types with "indefinite length structures."...

leafnode fetchnews denial-of-service triggered by truncated transmission

When a downloaded news article ends prematurely, i. e. when the server sends CRLF.CRLF before sending a blank line, fetchnews may wait indefinitely for data that never arrives. Workaround: configure "minlines=1" or use a bigger value in the configuration file. Found by Toni Viemerö...