[Dovecot] Out of memory [repost as a new thread]

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 14:51 +0100, Wolfram Schlich wrote:
> this happens since a few days on a Gentoo hardened system using a
> grsecurity enabled kernel running Dovecot 1.0.10, only to 2 of 10
> users though:
> 
> --8<--
> 
> kernel: grsec: From 192.168.0.1: denied resource overstep by \
> 	requesting 537325568 for RLIMIT_AS against limit 536870912 \

If it's trying to allocate 500MB of memory, there's a bug somewhere.
Could you get gdb backtrace of this? The attached patch changes Dovecot
to call abort() so it should write core files to user's home dir. See
http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html


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