Hi,
We're seeing vchkpw segfault seemingly at random during pop3 authentication,
but only on CentOS 5 x86_64. The result is pop3 authentication failing
randomly. CentOS 5 32 bit and CentOS 4 64 and 32 bit do not exhibit this
behavior, with the same vpopmail code base (5.4.9). This is admittidly not
the newest vpopmail version - does this problem sound familiar to anyone and
do you recall it being fixed in one of the newer versions?
It appears to be related to the "softlimit" command that is used in the
invocation of pop3. Attempting to raise the softlimit -m parameter to very
high values (as high as 512000000) does not prevent the segfault, however,
removing the softlimit line entirely does prevent the segfaults. Also,
copying the vchkpw binary compiled on a 32 bit CentOS 5 OS to the 64 bit
install also "fixes" the problem.
I realize 5.4.9 is pretty old, but we don't require many of the new features
in the newer vpopmail releases, and would prefer to not have to recompile
qmail-smtpd if we can get away with it (where we're using chkuser).
In the ChangeLog for 5.4.10 I see this:
Stephan Tesch
- md5.h: fix related to segfaults in vchkpw on Sparc64. [1144851]
What's the likelyhood that is related?
Thanks,
Paul
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