[Dovecot] pop3-login process leakage

Clive Jones Clive.Jones+nospam+procontrol.fi at meridian.co.uk
Tue Nov 18 13:24:51 EET 2003


Timo,

Thanks for your message. Unfortunately, dovecot was running on a
live server with debugging disabled in the kernel. It was a while
before I could reboot it into a different kernel. (-8

> Do this to one of the processes:
> 
> gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login <pid of pop3-login process>

Attaching to program `/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login', process 23957
Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld.so...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libssl.so.6.0...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.8.0...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.28.5...done.
0x40142733 in poll ()

> p clients->nodes_count

$1 = 0

> p main_refcount

$2 = 2

> p auth_reconnect

$3 = 0

> p auth_waiting_handshake_count

$4 = 0

What's the verdict?

Regards,

--Clive.



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