Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:46:20 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Nick Golder <nrg@timing.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail issues; possible exploit? Message-ID: <1F9AF010-9A05-11D8-BC40-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20040429160357.GA6623@gremlin.timing.com> References: <20040429160357.GA6623@gremlin.timing.com>
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On Apr 29, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Nick Golder wrote:
> On a 4.8-RELEASE-p17 machine running Sendmail 8.12.8p2 we are seeing
> the
> following errors in /var/log/{messages,maillog}:
> sm-mta[50018]: i3TDTBcR050018: SYSERR(root): out of memory: Cannot
> allocate memory
The error message suggests that you're running out of swapspace. Do
you have excessive numbers of sendmail processes running, perhaps due
to someone mail-bombing your server?
There have been security holes fixed in sendmail since 8.12.8, and
8.12.11 is the most current version. Some of the fixes have been
backported to FreeBSD 4.8, (that's what the p2 means), but I'm not sure
whether your version is completely up-to-date.
--
-Chuck
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