Bug in SweepOther.pm?

[Scott Silva]

on 11-4-2008 9:57 PM Symon Chalk spake the following:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com
> <mailto: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. 
> 
What clues do you get if you run 'MailScanner --debug --debug-sa'?

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