Is MailScanner affected by the Redhat bug

[Alex Broens]

On 9/18/2008 10:25 AM, Jason Ede wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of ram
>> Sent: 09 September 2008 15:00
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: Is MailScanner affected by the Redhat bug
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 13:01 +0100, Greg Matthews wrote:
>>> ram wrote:
>>>> I have all my servers running MailScanner on Centos. Is MailScanner
>>>> greatly affected by the Bug ?
>>>> Should I upgrade perl on my machines  ?
>>> I've ran tests last week on CentOS 4 and CentOS 5. CentOS 4.6 is
>>> unaffected but CentOS 5.2 does contain the bug. However, it is not
>> clear
>>> that this performance issue unduly affects MailScanner as other
>>> latencies are likely to dominate.
>>>
>>
>> I did some testing myself .. There is apparently absolutely no affect
>> on
>> MailScanner
>>
>> took ~1000 mails to a test machine , Centos 5 , 4GB Ram ,
>> with the perlbug and run it under MailScanner ( MailScanner + SA +
>> customscanner + f-prot6 + clamavmodule )
>>
>> It takes 18 minutes with the perl bug and it same time (infact took 15s
>> more)  after I upgraded perl with the patch on http://people.centos.org
>>
>>
>> So That is not any major affect after all :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ram
> 
> CentOS have released the patch for this. Installed this morning and confirmed it fixes the bless issue.

could become a dependency party...
my Centos 5 testbox complained about version conflicts concerning

  perl-Math-BigInt
  perl-IO
  perl-bignum