Re: [AMaViS-user] Bug or DoS-problem in amavisd-new 2.4.3

2006-10-10 Thread Kai Risku
I was wrong, sophie is innocent, timing in header checks was inappropriately attributed to the first virus scanner. The patch below fixes this, and the original problem, which was a deep regexp recursion in evaluating header check, making testing for presence of all-whitespace line in

[AMaViS-user] Bug or DoS-problem in amavisd-new 2.4.3

2006-10-09 Thread Kai Risku
I just noticed that some emails have been taking so long to process by amavisd-new that things time out and the email gets stuck in the queue. This is currently happening with amavisd-new 2.4.3, but not necessarily specific to that version as I haven't made an effort to test with older versions.