Bug#408406: marked as done (glibc malloc checker can abort deliver resulting in bounced mail)

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• To: submit@bugs.debian.org
• Cc: Jim Studt <jim@federated.com>
• Subject: glibc malloc checker can abort deliver resulting in bounced mail
• From: Jim Studt <jim@federated.com>
• Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:16:05 -0600
• Message-id: <56C2AA44-EE6B-493D-8914-91B7BBAD8468@federated.com>

Package: deliver
Version: 2.1.14-4
Severity: grave

Libc version: 2.3.6.ds1-8

The deliver command fails infrequently producing the following log in mail.log... Jan 24 09:22:35 core postfix/local[21837]: 09C0836F28: to=<dave@federated.com>,

     relay=local, delay=0.13, delays=0.04/0/0/0.09, dsn=5.3.0,

status=bounced (Command died with signal 6: "/usr/bin/deliver - u /etc/deliver/default.user dave". Command output: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7f51d14 *** )

In the last 69000 deliveries I see 220 of these failures. The users on this system all use the same deliver file...

    #!/bin/sh

    if cat $HEADER | grep -q 'X-Bogosity:  *Yes' ;then
        [ -d ~/Mail ] || mkdir ~/Mail
        echo ':Mail/bogospam'
        exit 0
    fi

    echo ':Mail/shadow'

A fix, short of finding what is probably a doubly freed or uninitialized pointer would

be to disable the suicidal error enforcement recently added in glibc.

I think a putenv("MALLOC_CHECK_",0) as the first thing in the program would accomplish this, though I haven't tried and there seems to be some dispute on the web if the last "_"

should be there, the debian man page suggests it should.

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• To: 3319-done@bugs.debian.org, 31501-done@bugs.debian.org, 408406-done@bugs.debian.org
• Subject: Removed
• From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
• Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:24:15 +0200
• Message-id: <20070703142415.GA24674@deprecation.cyrius.com>

This package has been removed from Debian unstable.  I'm therefore
closing this bug report.  The package has been removed because it
was orphaned, unmaintained, out of date, buggy.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

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