Bug in SweepOther.pm?

[Symon Chalk]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:

> on 11-4-2008 10:01 AM Symon Chalk spake the following:
> > I had an issue come up today with MailScanner, quite why it only
> > suddenly surfaced I don't know (I'm guessing someone did an update on
> > the server and hasn't fessed up).
> >
> > Anyway, the issue was that MailScanner would continually cycle over the
> > same messages time and again, never actually processing them (although
> > it'd virus and SpamAssassin scan them, just not deliver them on). The
> > only error was in /var/log/messages, being variations on the following:
> > "Process did not exit cleanly, returned 255 with signal 0".
> >
> > Running check_MailScanner with Debug = yes and Debug SpamAssassin = yes
> > turned up the following error: "Unmatched ) in regex; marked by <-- HERE
> > in m/\.[a-z0-9]{3}) <-- HERE \1$/ at
> > /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SweepOther.pm line 273."
> >
> > I took a look at that file and couldn't see anything obviously wrong,
> > although it's hard to tell as the regex is actually being passed in as a
> > variable. To get round the problem I added the following: "$regex =
> > quotemeta ($regex);" just before that line, which cured the problem and
> > doesn't seem to have broken anything else (check_MailScanner returned no
> > problems and the server is now processing mail correctly).
> >
> > Any thoughts on what could have caused this and whether my fix is okay?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Symon.
> >
> Since you didn't state which version you are running, it could be an old
> bug,
> or it could be new.


D'oh! I'm running 4.72.5-1 on a CentOS 5.2 box.
Symon.
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