CVE-2005-1514

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-05-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

commands.c in qmail, when running on 64 bit platforms with a large amount of virtual memory, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long SMTP command without a space character, which causes an array to be referenced with a negative index.

Affected products

Dan Bernstein Qmail: all versions

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-05/0101.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157805/Qualys-Security-Advisory-Qmail-Remote-Code-Execution.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/May/42
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013911
http://www.guninski.com/where_do_you_want_billg_to_go_today_4.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/19/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/20/2
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00002.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-01
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4556-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4692
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-05/0101.html

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