[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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