[PLUG] Spamassassin goes nuts
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Wed Aug 11 11:50:02 UTC 2004
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, John Meissen wrote:
> My copy of Spamassassin suddenly went nuts. It's suddenly started
> thrashing on the disk for a long time, causing timeouts in sendmail.
> I killed it manually after a minute or so myself a few times. I
> finally got it to stop by removing the bayes* files in
> ~/.spamassassin.
SpamAssassin versions prior to 2.64 are vulnerable to a denial of
service attack. See, e.g.,
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-06.xml
This, of course, may not be the problem you encountered, but it's
worth mentioning just in case.
--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>
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