Perl taint issue and instability

[Martin Hepworth]

corrects his-self ;-)

latest stable is Version
4.84.3-1<http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/rpm/MailScanner-4.84.3-1.rpm.tar.gz>and
use the -U flag.



-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK


On 1 October 2011 18:44, Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com> wrote:

> latest perl code being more strict than before.
>
> Latest Beta and the -U flag should sort it.
>
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> Martin Hepworth
> Oxford, UK
>
>
>
> On 1 October 2011 18:05, Jeremy McSpadden <jeremy at fluxlabs.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm on the same boat. I have several servers which have taint issues.
>> Mostly faults at File.pm and scanning attachments. I'm not a programmer, and
>> unfortunately cannot help. It sucks. I'm not sure where the breakage is. If
>> its MS causing deprecated code, or is it actually perl?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeremy McSpadden
>>
>> On Oct 1, 2011, at 12:02 PM, "Dave Jones" <davejones70 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Is anyone else frustrated with the taint issue causing MailScanner
>> instability?
>> >
>> > I have 8 MailScanner servers -- half are CentOS 5 with Sendmail and the
>> other half are SL6 using Postfix.  My new boxes are running the latest
>> version of MailScanner with the "#!/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner -U"
>> setting.
>> >
>> > The SL6 servers running perl-5.10.1-119.el6.x86_64 are not stable.
>>  Icinga is constantly telling me to restart MailScanner on one of them every
>> few days.  I have a script that pushes out changes from a central location
>> and runs "service MailScanner reload."  Many times the reload fails causing
>> me to have to manually run a full restart.
>> >
>> > I know the Baruwa mailing also has many posts with the same problems.
>> >
>> > Is MailScanner fixed and the problem is cause by the underlying perl
>> modules that are not updated to run under perl 5.10?
>> >
>> > I have been waiting for over 6 months to put my SL6 boxes into a full
>> production load once they are stable but it's about time to reload them with
>> SL5 to get back to perl 5.8.8 and stability.
>> >
>> > Dave
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