RH8/Perl 5.8.0 security upgrade crashes MailScanner 4.23-11

[Daniel Kleinsinger]

I up2dated my RH8 box (obviously before reading your email) and
MailScanner started up/is working without a problem.  Not too helpful,
but it doesn't seem like a global thing, maybe just something with your
setup.  I'm running MS 4.21 w/ SA 2.60.

Daniel

Mike Watson wrote:

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>On Thursday 25 September 2003 09:40 pm, you wrote:
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>>The Perl upgrade have wiped out all extra Perl modules that
>>MailScanner need to work. You just need to reinstall these modules,
>>check: http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/perl.shtml
>>Regards,
>>Norman
>>
>>Thomas M Watson escreveu:
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>>>RH8 just upgraded Perl  and now my MailScanner (4.23-11) fails at
>>>startup.  Error message below.
>>>
>>>Here is the list of updated RPMs from RH.  Anyone know what
>>>happened and how I can fix it?
>>>
>>>perl-5.8.0-88.3
>>>perl-CGI-2.81-88.3
>>>perl-CPAN-1.61-88.3
>>>perl-DB_FILE-1.804-88.3
>>>perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.3
>>>
>>>After the updates I restarted MailScanner and got this.  I reloaded
>>>the MailScanner RPMs and attempted
>>>a reinstall, but that failed too.
>>>
>>>MailScanner failed. The error was: Shutting down MailScanner
>>>daemons: MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
>>>         incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
>>>         outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>>>Starting MailScanner daemons:
>>>         incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
>>>         outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>>>         MailScanner:       Can't locate MIME/Parser.pm in @INC
>>>(@INC contains: /usr/lib/MailScanner
>>>/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
>>>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
>>>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
>>>/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
>>>/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
>>>/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 .
>>>/usr/lib/MailScanner) at
>>>/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 40.
>>>BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
>>>/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 40.
>>>Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 48.
>>>BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 48.
>>>[  OK  ]
>>>
>>>
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>I reverted the four Perl modules to the original RH8 versions and
>MailScanner is running again.  I sure would like to know what broke
>however.
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>Mike W
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