This one time, at band camp, Jan Luehr said: > Greetings,... > > Am Donnerstag, 26. August 2004 22:18 schrieb Thomas Sjögren: > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:44:51PM +0200, Jan Luehr wrote: > > > Greetings,.... > > > > > > Am Donnerstag, 26. August 2004 19:32 schrieb UnKnown: > > > > Hi ppl, first I wont to state that this is my first mail to this list, > > > > if by any chance this is not the right list to do so plz point me to > > > > the correct one. > > > > Last sunday the mail server start kicking process, actually it did such > > > > a mess, that it trow all daemons down. When I check the console this > > > > message was the only thing left: > > > > __alloc_pages: '-order allocation failed (gfp=0x....) > > > > > > Ok. This looks like an exploit. > > > Wich Kernel do you use? > > > 2.4.26 is certainly not Woody-standard. > > > Are you able to find any binary causing these kind of messages? > > > > Sure it isnt the memory or filesystem? > > Some info: > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.2/1680.html > > http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/01-2004/8144.html > > http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Jul/1178.html > > You may be right. I thought ReiserFS-Bugs in that way are relicts from the > dark age of 2.4... > However - failed memory allocation can also be a sympton of an exploit trying > to access memory he shouldn't do ,) In this case, though, I think spamassassin was sparking OOM problems scanning an oversized email header block. How exim wrote all those headers is another question, though - it shouldn't be doing that, I wouldn't think. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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