[Mimedefang] Slave 0 ran out of memory -- possible DoS attack due to complex MIME

Aaron Paetznick aaronp at critd.com
Thu Jan 9 20:56:01 EST 2003


Ok.  I did what you said, and mimedefang.pl ran fine without errors, and 
added the Work dir again with the msg file containing the email body. 
Does this mean it worked perfectly then?

I'm running perl v5.6.0 which came with the distro.  Would it help to 
upgrade perl to v5.8.0 maybe?


--Aaron



David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Aaron Paetznick wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've been having this problem on my test Alpha linux machine for a few 
>>days.  Here are the errors:
> 
> 
>>Jan  9 19:05:24 ds20 mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: Out of memory!
> 
> 
> Perl is printing that error.  Try running mimedefang with the -k option
> so it does not delete directories of failed messages; then run
> mimedefang.pl by hand in that directory as follows:
> 
> 	cd /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-xxxxxx
> 	rm -rf Work
> 	mimedefang.pl .
> 
> and see if it complains about running out of memory.
> 
> --
> David.
> 
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