RH8/Perl 5.8.0 security upgrade crashes MailScanner 4.23-11

[Mike Watson]

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On Friday 26 September 2003 08:15 pm, you wrote:
> 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
>
I got MailScanner running again by reloading the previous versions of 
Perl.

I'm running MS 4.23.11 w/Spamassassin 2.44 and RH 8 with all the current 
errata and security patches (except for Perl now...)

My perl version is now 5.8.0-55 instead of 5.8.0-88.3

Mike W
> Mike Watson wrote:
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> >On Thursday 25 September 2003 09:40 pm, you wrote:
> >>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:
> >>>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  ]
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Mike W
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