20 Jan
2008
20 Jan
'08
9:48 a.m.
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