Re: [Exim] PAX Killing Exim 4.31?

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Author: Scott Call
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To: Marc MERLIN
CC: Exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] PAX Killing Exim 4.31?
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Marc MERLIN wrote:

> Typically, that's because of a bug in Exim (or one of the libs/calls it
> uses), that causes it to go out of bounds.
> With PAX, it gets killed before it has a chance to get a SEGV from the kernel
>
> Either way, PAX is not responsible for this as far as I can tell, and
> chpax won't help you. I'm almost certain that you're just hitting an exim crash


Okay, thanks for the info. From what I was able to google, someone had
recommended turning off perl to avoid these errors, so I was wondering if
the perl support tried to execute from data segments or something like
that.

If it was just PAX catching either a crash or an intentional buffer
overflow, then that's fine, I was just curious.

Thanks
-Scott


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