Sendmail issues; possible exploit?

Nick Golder nrg at timing.com
Thu Apr 29 14:56:43 PDT 2004


On 2004-04-29 22:57 +0400, Alex V Eustrop wrote:
>  Are you using clamav-milter? There are was such trouble with clamav-milter
> from clamav-devel before Apr 2004 on FreeBSD 4.9 (sendmail 8.12.9p2)
>  I had that problem with 1.5 minutes or more while transferring single
> message to sendmail with clamav-milter. Sendmail has no trouble without
> clamav-milter or with other one (For example - spamass-milter-0.2.0_1 port)
>  Clamav was fixed for that bug, but real problem could be (on not to be)
> inside sendmail.
> 
> P.S. I am not sure that my message will be posted to freebsd-security@,
>      but you can forward it to upcoming discussion if it's interesting.
> 

It did end up being clamd/clamav-milter.  The symptoms began when clamd
exited with a signal 6.  Thanks for the suggestions.

-Nick


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