Segfault

[Julian Field]

The latest versions have protection systems against exactly this kind of 
problem.

On 15/08/2009 23:42, Yann Bachy wrote:
> In fact this has worked fine for at least over a 100 days (uptime)... 
> but server has been installed about 1 or 2 years ago ... never had 
> this problem before
>
> We finally found the problem.... there was a mal-formatted mail in the 
> queue... I put it aside and gonna check it out on monday morning when 
> I get back to it.
>
> I'll let you guys know if I find something, thanks anyway... I'll do 
> some updates ;)
>
> bye!
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Yann Bachy
>
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>
> Quoting Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com>:
>
>> Yann
>> that's a really old version of mailscanner - there's an update debian 
>> port
>> somewhere or move to the generic installer.
>>
>> normally this is something like a bad spool file, or the fact you;ve
>> upgraded postfix and the version of MS you've got doesn't understand 
>> the new
>> spool  file format.
>>
>> Has this ever worked or is this a new install??
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Martin Hepworth
>> Oxford, UK
>>
>> 2009/8/14 Yann Bachy <yann.b at capensis.fr>
>>
>>> Hello everyone!
>>>
>>> I've got the following problem with my mailscanner:
>>>
>>> every time Mailscanner loads a batch of mails to scan it quits and 
>>> starts
>>> all over again :
>>>
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>> Scanner version 4.55.10 starting...
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Read 748 hostnames from 
>>> the
>>> phishing whitelist
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Config: calling custom 
>>> init
>>> function SQLBlacklist
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Starting up SQL Blacklist
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Read 0 blacklist entries
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Config: calling custom 
>>> init
>>> function MailWatchLogging
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Started SQL Logging child
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Config: calling custom 
>>> init
>>> function SQLWhitelist
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Starting up SQL Whitelist
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Read 2 whitelist entries
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Using SpamAssassin results
>>> cache
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Connected to SpamAssassin
>>> cache database
>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Enabling SpamAssassin
>>> auto-whitelist functionality...
>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Using locktype = flock
>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: New Batch: Found 15 
>>> messages
>>> waiting
>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: New Batch: Scanning 5
>>> messages, 922438 bytes
>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
>>> message 8248C328003.1CFD1
>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
>>> message 132F5328005.8800B
>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
>>> message 96FA0328004.08A04
>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
>>> message 212D9328007.B19A9
>>> Aug 14 18:14:01 localhost MailScanner[6844]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
>>> message 9735C328006.BEBA0
>>> Aug 14 18:14:01 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Virus and Content 
>>> Scanning:
>>> Starting
>>> Aug 14 18:14:10 localhost MailScanner: Process did not exit cleanly,
>>> returned 0 with signal 11
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> and it does this over and over again
>>>
>>> I ran an strace on the process and get a segfault when it calls a brk()
>>>
>>> Mailscanner is running with postfix on a Debian 4.0 2.6.17-2-686
>>> Mailscanner : 4.55.10-3
>>>
>>> thanks for any info
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Yann Bachy
>>>
>>> CAPENSIS
>>> 30 rue du Triez
>>> 59290 Wasquehal
>>> ----------------------
>>> Tel     03 59 39 13 40
>>> Fax     03 59 39 13 49
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>

Jules

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