Re: Sendmail issues; possible exploit?

From: Charles Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 04/29/04

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:46:20 -0400
To: Nick Golder <nrg@timing.com>

    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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