Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:43:50 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procmail workaround for MIME filename overflow exploit Message-ID: <3713.901809830@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:17:28 MDT." <19980730081728.46269@i-pi.com>
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In message <19980730081728.46269@i-pi.com>, Kenneth Ingham writes: >I've got one problem with using procmail to solve the MIME problem. >My users regularly send each other >5MB email messages. When I >was using procmail as the local delivery agent, it died on large >messages, sometimes taking all the swap space on the machine (284MB) >with it. Changing back to the standard local mail delivery agent >solved the problems. procmail realloc(3)'s memory in a truly stupid way: it reallocs the same chunk over and over again, in 16k size increments. This is stupid. It should double the size everytime. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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