Public bug reported:
When used in conjunction with IRC bouncer software or many-client setups
with oidentd, a new oidentd process will be spawned for each oidentd
connection request, and the previous processes won't terminate/end.
Attached are modified oident.confs in the system in question, and a
modified init.d with a -l 10 option which fixes this issue.
I would suggest patching the init.d item to fix the init.d script to
change the default options to limit the number of processes/simultaneous
connections that can be handled.
This may not be a security bug, but this malfunction can in certain
cases eat up to 1GB or more of RAM.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: oidentd 2.0.8-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 30 22:15:20 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: oidentd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.init.d.oidentd: 2012-12-29T00:14:51.948475
mtime.conffile..etc.oidentd.conf: 2012-11-26T17:39:28.092475
** Affects: oidentd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise
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oidentd spawns a new process for all new connections unless -l
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