Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

> > > Both qmail (which proved insecure <most evil grin>)
> > 
> > To what are you referring ?
> 
> Probably what was reported on the djb-qmail mailing list, where you
> start sending data, but no CR-LF, down the line and qmail malloc's
> some memory for it, then malloc's some more, and some more, etc.  I
> haven't heard of anything else.

As has been discussed ad nauseam on the djb-qmail mailing list, this is 
something that should be handled by ulimits, and is NOT a security bug 
(although it is arguably a documentation bug).

Next ;-)

Cheers, Phil.



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