Taint problems

Thu May 5 17:37:14 IST 2011

Danilo Marques de Gouveia <dm.gouveia at gmail.com> ha scritto:

WOW !!! That worked !!!

Thanks for the help man, let me ask you somthing, I do have another server that doesn't show up this error, I'm wondering if we are getting this error because we got any perl updates or even a new version of anything else.

Thanks in advance

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Alessandro Bianchi <alex at skynet-srl.com> wrote:

Danilo Marques de Gouveia <dm.gouveia at gmail.com> ha scritto:

Hi Alessandro,

I'm getting the same issue that you got, when I run the mailscanner in debug mode I got the error:

In Debugging mode, not forking...

Trying to setlogsock(unix)

Building a message batch to scan...

Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch at /usr/share/MailScanner//MailScanner/Lock.pm line 358.

                                                                                                                                                                                                         [fail]

root at mx:/var/spool/postfix/active#

In the list you wrote that you changed the /usr/sbin/MailScanner and added the -U option ... I didn't get this part, which change you did?

If you could help me with this issue I would be very pleased since I'm fighting agains my MS server for two days :(

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Alessandro Bianchi <alex at skynet-srl.com> wrote:

Hi folks

I discovered that the problems that forced me to run MS as root were originated by taint mode errors.

Something has happened on my Fedora 14 Systems so that MS spits a load of taint errors and dies.

Here there are some of them:

/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Lock.pm line 358
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 538
Insecure dependency in chown while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 1381.
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 2418

/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/PFDiskStore.pm line 173
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/PFDiskStore.pm line 176.
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/PFDiskStore.pm line 379
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Quarantine.pm line 189

Can't call method "print" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/PFDiskStore.pm line 752.
Can't call method "CombineReports" on unblessed reference at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/MessageBatch.pm line 736.

Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch at /usr/lib64/perl5/IO/File.pm line 185.
Insecure dependency in mkdir while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/TNEF.pm line 233.
Insecure dependency in mkdir while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/TNEF.pm line 236.
Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch at /usr/share/perl5/File/Copy.pm line 246.

The synptom is MS starting and restarting over and over again in the logs.

I begun to follow the errors using the --debug switch, and fixed some of them, until I came to errors in files that appear to be System libraries (p.e. /usr/share/perl5/File/Copy.pm ).

Furthermore running as root prevented Postfix from picking up files from the incoming directory and that leaded me to a non functional mail system: so I had to go back to running MS as postfix user and avoinding fatal taint errors.

Till now, after several hours, the only way I found to run MS , is adding the -U switch in the showbang line in /usr/sbin/MailScanner.

This switch, to my understanding, turns fatal taint errors in warning, but I'm still looking for a definitive fix.

Hope to save some night work hours to someone else with this info.

Best regards

Alessandro Bianchi

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Just edit your MS executable ( should be something like /sbin/MailScanner but I'm out of office right now) and at the end of the first line add "-U" (without quotes).

This should do the trick.

Tell me if it is Ok.

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Happy it did!

It seems to be related to perl update.

Which distro are you running?
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