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

Aaron Paetznick aaronp at critd.com
Fri Jan 10 14:55:01 EST 2003


I upgraded perl to v5.8.0, and that fixed the problem.  I can't think of 
a satifying answer as to why, but it did work.  Thanks much.


--Aaron



David F. Skoll wrote:
> 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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