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<glsa id="200504-10">
  <title>Gld: Remote execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    Gld contains several serious vulnerabilities, potentially resulting in the
    execution of arbitrary code as the root user.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Gld</product>
  <announced>April 13, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>88904</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="mail-filter/gld" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.5</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">1.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Gld is a standalone greylisting server for Postfix.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    dong-hun discovered several buffer overflows in server.c, as well as
    several format string vulnerabilities in cnf.c.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code
    with the permissions of the user running Gld, the default user being
    root.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Gld users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=mail-filter/gld-1.5&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Apr/1013678.html">SecurityTracker ID 1013678</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1099">CVE-2005-1099</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1100">CVE-2005-1100</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:26:52 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:04:44 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>