CVE-2005-1099
Multiple buffer overflows in the HandleChild function in server.c in Greylisting daemon (GLD) 1.3 and 1.4, when GLD is listening on a…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 67.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in the HandleChild function in server.c in Greylisting daemon (GLD) 1.3 and 1.4, when GLD is listening on a network interface, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 3 Exploit-DB entries for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- GLD (Greylisting Daemon) Postfix Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/misc/gld_postfixRank gooddisclosed 12 Apr 2005
Exploit-DB3 entries
- Salim Gasmi GLD (Greylisting Daemon) - Postfix Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16841remote, linuxpublished 3 Jul 2010Verified
- Salim Gasmi GLD (Greylisting Daemon) 1.0 < 1.4 - Postfix Greylisting Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 10023remote, linuxpublished 12 Apr 2005Verified
- Salim Gasmi GLD (Greylisting Daemon) 1.x - Postfix Greylisting Daemon Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 25392remote, linuxpublished 12 Apr 2005Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
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Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 67.7% · top 0.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 1013678 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 15492 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- GLSA-200504-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://www.gasmi.net/down/gld-history (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- gld-serverc-bo(20066) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 14941 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20050412 GLD (Greylisting daemon for Postfix) multiple vulnerabilities. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20050413 Gld 1.5 released (security fix) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-1102 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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