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

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Thu Jan 9 21:25:00 EST 2003


On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Aaron Paetznick wrote:

> 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?

Probably.  That's very weird.  Could it be a hardware problem?
I don't know why Perl would claim to run out of memory.

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

Can't hurt, I guess.

--
David.




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