[Dovecot] imap-login: memory corruption

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Wed Jan 14 17:46:43 EET 2009


* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> > Jan 14 08:42:52 postamt dovecot: imap-login: *** glibc detected *** imap-login: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0844e778 ***
> > Jan 14 08:42:52 postamt dovecot: child 15380 (login) killed with signal 6
> 
> The annoying thing is that these are pretty much impossible to fix
> without a way to reproduce or running imap-login via valgrind..

And valgrind would be impossibly slow (I think)
 
> Do you use SSL?

Yes.

> What authentication mechanisms do you use?

passdb passwd-file {
  args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot.masterusers
  master = yes
  pass = yes
}
passdb shadow {
}
		    
> login_process_per_connection=yes/no?
login_process_per_connection = no

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