CVE-2007-3791: Policyd

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the w_read function in sockets.c in Cami Sardinha and Nigel Kukard policyd before 1.81 for Postfix allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long SMTP commands. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Policyd Policyd: version 1.70 only; version 1.71 only; version 1.72 only; version 1.73 only; version 1.74 only; version 1.75 only; …

Published 2007-07-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.