MailScanner fail after spam message received

Kimmo Veijalainen Kimmo.Veijalainen at hedengren.fi
Wed Jan 18 11:32:28 GMT 2012


> Every-time when I receive spam message, MailScanner restart (or die?!). When I run with check_MailScanner with Debug=on i got this error:
> 
> 10:13:26 Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/perl5/IO/File.pm line 185.
> Failed.

There's a taint issue somewhere.
Quick and dirty solution: edit the first line of /usr/sbin/MailScanner. Add -U option.
Then it will run "unsafe" code that normally fails taint checks.



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