Bug 2090 - Certain attachments causing endless loop in SpamAssassin.
Summary: Certain attachments causing endless loop in SpamAssassin.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: spamassassin (show other bugs)
Version: SVN Trunk (Latest Devel Version)
Hardware: Other other
: P5 normal
Target Milestone: 2.70
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2003-06-19 03:39 UTC by Vincent Sweeney
Modified: 2003-06-18 20:09 UTC (History)
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Description Vincent Sweeney 2003-06-19 03:39:00 UTC 
The following mail (http://www.sircd.org/sa-msg.buggy.gz) when scanned by
spamassassin using the latest CVS version causes the process to never end and
the memory foot-print constantly grows in size until it has used all the memory
on the system.

This is happening with a small number of mails on our server and the only common
cause I can find is that they all contain attachements.
Comment 1 Theo Van Dinter 2003-06-19 04:09:43 UTC 
This mail is 3.1MB in size.  As mentioned in the docs and numerous times on the sa-talk mailing 
list, you shouldn't scan mails of that size.
Comment 2 Vincent Sweeney 2003-06-19 04:32:42 UTC 
Subject: RE:  Certain attachments causing endless loop in SpamAs
	sassin.

Actually it is not mentioned anywhere in the doc's or in the website FAQ
anywhere I can find.

Anyway, I've added a condition to my exiscan / exim to only check mails
under a few hundred K in size so hopefully I do not see this issue anymore.

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Sent: 19 June 2003 12:10
To: vincent.sweeney@game.net
Subject: [Bug 2090] Certain attachments causing endless loop in
SpamAssassin.


http://www.hughes-family.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2090

felicity@kluge.net changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX



------- Additional Comments From felicity@kluge.net  2003-06-19 04:09
------- This mail is 3.1MB in size.  As mentioned in the docs and numerous
times on the sa-talk mailing 
list, you shouldn't scan mails of that size.



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Comment 3 Theo Van Dinter 2003-06-19 04:36:54 UTC 
Subject: Re: [SAdev]  Certain attachments causing endless loop in SpamAssassin.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:32:42AM -0700, bugzilla-daemon@hughes-family.org wrote:
> Actually it is not mentioned anywhere in the doc's or in the website FAQ
> anywhere I can find.

http://spamassassin.taint.org/faq/index.cgi?req=all#4.10