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Gentoo GLSA 200504-10 High: Gld Remote Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey April 13, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
Uncover urgent security notice GLSA 200504-10 regarding Gentoo's Gld facing significant buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
Gld contains several serious vulnerabilities, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code as the root user.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Gld: Remote execution of arbitrary code Date: April 13, 2005 Bugs: #88904 ID: 200504-10

Synopsis ======= Gld contains several serious vulnerabilities, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code as the root user.
Background ========= Gld is a standalone greylisting server for Postfix.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-filter/gld <= 1.4 >= 1.5
========== dong-hun discovered several buffer overflows in server.c, as well as several format string vulnerabilities in cnf.c.
Impact ===== An attacker could exploit this vulne...

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