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gross — security advisory
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in gross 0.9.3 through 1.x before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (grossd daemon crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code in grossd via crafted SMTP transaction parameters that cause an incorrect strncat for a log entry.
- Products
- gross
- Affected versions
- 1.0.2-4, 1.0.2-4.1~deb10u1, 1.0.2-4.1~deb11u1
- Fixed versions
- 1.0.2-4.1, 1.0.2-4.1~deb12u1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-52159
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in gross 0.9.3 through 1.x before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (grossd daemon crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code in grossd via crafted SMTP transaction parameters that cause an incorrect strncat for a log entry.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52159
gross
Fixed versions: 1.0.2-4.1~deb12u1
gross
Fixed versions: 1.0.2-4.1
gross
Fixed versions: 1.0.2-4.1
Complete source record
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