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Date:      Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:30:58 +0200
From:      "Lutz Rabing" <LutzRab@omc.net>
To:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   New Attack via sendmail?
Message-ID:  <199906141930.VAA14403@office.omc.net>

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I've seen some pretty strange lines in syslog of one of our webservers.

The box is running 2.2.8 with sendmail 8.9.3 and has never been out of
swap space before, in fact it's not using swap space at all under normal
conditions.

Lutz Rabing
-OMCnet-

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Jun 14 14:11:48 meg /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Jun 14 14:11:48 meg Jun 14 14:11:48sendmail[: /etc/spwd.db
Jun 14 14:11:48 meg Jun 14 14:11:48sendmail[: OAA14935
Jun 14 14:12:00 meg /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Jun 14 14:12:00 meg /kernel: pid 14964 (perl5.00404), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Jun 14 14:12:01 meg Jun 14 14:12:01sendmail[: /etc/spwd.db
Jun 14 14:12:01 meg /kernel: pid 14963 (sh), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Jun 14 14:12:01 meg Jun 14 14:12:01sendmail[: /etc/spwd.db
Jun 14 14:12:05 meg Jun 14 14:12:05sendmail[: /etc/spwd.db
Jun 14 14:12:05 meg Jun 14 14:12:05sendmail[: NOQUEUE
Jun 14 14:12:07 meg Jun 14 14:12:07sendmail[: NOQUEUE
Jun 14 14:12:10 meg Jun 14 14:12:10cucipop[: out of memory
Jun 14 14:12:10 meg Jun 14 14:12:10cucipop[: lost
Jun 14 14:12:11 meg Jun 14 14:12:11sendmail[: NOQUEUE
Jun 14 14:12:12 meg Jun 14 14:12:12sendmail[: /etc/spwd.db
Jun 14 14:12:12 meg Jun 14 14:12:12sendmail[: NOQUEUE
Jun 14 14:12:14 meg Jun 14 14:12:14sendmail[: NOQUEUE
Jun 14 14:12:17 meg /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space 
Jun 14 14:12:19 meg last message repeated 2 times
Jun 14 14:12:19 meg Jun 14 14:12:19sendmail[: /etc/spwd.db
Jun 14 14:12:19 meg Jun 14 14:12:19sendmail[: NOQUEUE
Jun 14 14:12:19 meg last message repeated 8 times
Jun 14 14:12:20 meg /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Jun 14 14:12:23 meg /kernel: pid 14974 (mail.local), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Jun 14 14:12:23 meg sendmail[14973]: OAA14972: SYSERR(UID0): mailer local died with signal 13
Jun 14 14:12:26 meg Jun 14 14:12:26cucipop[: out of memory
Jun 14 14:12:26 meg Jun 14 14:12:26cucipop[: lost
Jun 14 14:12:35 meg Jun 14 14:12:35sendmail[: NOQUEUE
Jun 14 14:12:45 meg Jun 14 14:12:45sendmail[: NOQUEUE
Jun 14 14:12:58 meg /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Jun 14 14:13:00 meg /kernel: pid 16699 (sh), uid 0: exited on signal 11


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