CVE-2005-1513General(canonical / debian_linux)

LOWCVSS 9.8 · CRITICAL

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

Integer overflow in the stralloc_readyplus function 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 large SMTP request.

0.5/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-190

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

YES

Patch

NONE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • debian_linux
  • qmail
  • ubuntu_linux

Threat summary

  • 1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

  • General: 1 classified signal
  • 1 total mentions across 1 day

Affected systems

Products
debian_linuxqmailubuntu_linux

5 versions affected across 3 products

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d
00111Mentions · 2026-05-05: 105-05
Signal classification1 categories
General
1100.0%
Full discourse1 post
  • Nikita Abdullin@0xABD
    General

    @halvarflake It only took 15 years to exploit CVE-2005-1513, surely a 64-bit one will take less than that because we are nearing singularity, or so they say

    Post summary

    The tweet comments that the CVE was exploited after 15 years but provides no technical or operational detail.

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CPE platform detail5 entries

5 of 5 entries

PartVendorProductVersionTarget SWTarget HW
OScanonicalubuntu_linux20.04--
OSdebiandebian_linux10.0--
OSdebiandebian_linux8.0--
OSdebiandebian_linux9.0--
Appqmail_projectqmail---

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