Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2005-1099 in the critical feed json

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 netwo…

published 2005-04-12 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1102

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
67.7%
EPSS 67.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
4
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • postfix-gld Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1099

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/linux/misc/gld_postfix)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

67.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/linux/misc/gld_postfix GLD (Greylisting Daemon) Postfix Buffer Overflow metasploit exploit, good rank, 2005-04-12
  • EDB-25392 Salim Gasmi GLD (Greylisting Daemon) 1.x - Postfix Greylisting Daemon Buffer Overflow remote, 2005-04-12
  • EDB-16841 Salim Gasmi GLD (Greylisting Daemon) - Postfix Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) remote, 2010-07-03
  • EDB-10023 Salim Gasmi GLD (Greylisting Daemon) 1.0 < 1.4 - Postfix Greylisting Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) remote, 2005-04-12

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.