Vulnerability in Postgrey
CVE-2005-1127
Format string vulnerability in the log function in Net::Server 0.87 and earlier, as used in Postfix Greylisting Policy Server (Postgrey) 1.18 and earlier, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via format string specifiers that are not properly handled before being sent to syslog, as demonstrated using sender addresses to Postgrey.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.027 (85.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.027 · newest: 0.027 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Postgrey — versions 1.17, 1.18
References
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-18.xml (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1122 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21452 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.ee.ethz.ch/postgrey/msg00630.html (mailing-list)
- www.osvdb.org/15517 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/21164 (third-party-advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/21152 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.ee.ethz.ch/postgrey/msg00627.html (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/21149 (third-party-advisory)