[Dovecot] [Dovecot 2.1] ACL plugin makes imap service crash when using some clients

[Pascal Volk]

On 01/18/2012 02:03 AM interfaSys sàrl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just noticed that when Horde is connecting to Dovecot 2.1, it
> crashes the imap service if Dovecot is configured to use the ACL plugin.
> I'm not sure what's so special about the command Horde sends, but it
> shouldn't make Dovecot crash. Everything is fine when using Thunderbird.
> 
> Here is the message in Dovecot's logs
> "Fatal: master: service(imap): child 89974 killed with signal 11 (core
> not dumped)"
> 
> The message says that the core is not dumped, even though I did add
> drop_priv_before_exec=yes to my config file.

dovecot stop
ulimit -c unlimited
dovecot

Now connect with Horde and let it crash.

> I've tried connecting to the pid using gdb, but the process just hangs
> as soon as I'm connected.
> 

continue
[wait for the crash]
bt full
detach
quit


Regards,
Pascal
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