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Re: Memory leakage in proftpd leads to remote DoS
From: "Rodrigo Barbosa (aka morcego)" <rodrigob () CONECTIVA COM BR>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 18:07:03 -0200
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:53:01PM +0100, Wojciech Purczynski wrote:
The developers of proftpd have tried to confirm this bug, using scripts to issue the SIZE command for hundred thousands of iterations, and failed to verify that it does indeed exist. Versions of proftpd tested: pre10, rc1, rc2, and CVS. All failed to show symptoms of this memory leak.I've investigated the problem a little bit more and it seems that this memory leakage really _exist_ but only if proftpd runs in INETD mode. If proftpd works as standalone daemon it works fine and does not consume system memory.
I'll not repeat here all we said and discussed before. If anyone want any further information on this, please refer to http://bugs.proftpd.net/show_bug.cgi?id=408 The official position is: this bug does not exist. No one every showed us any way we could reproduce it. All reports only showed lack of compreension and misguidance. Tkx -- Rodrigo Barbosa (morcego) - rodrigob at conectiva.com.br Conectiva R&D Team - http://distro.conectiva.com.br "Quis custodiet custodes?" - http://www.conectiva.com
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- Memory leakage in proftpd leads to remote DoS Wojciech Purczynski (Dec 19)
- Re: Memory leakage in proftpd leads to remote DoS Dmitry Alyabyev (Dec 20)
- Re: Memory leakage in proftpd leads to remote DoS tj (Dec 20)
- Re: Memory leakage in proftpd leads to remote DoS Wojciech Purczynski (Dec 22)
- Re: Memory leakage in proftpd leads to remote DoS Rodrigo Barbosa (aka morcego) (Dec 24)
- Re: Memory leakage in proftpd leads to remote DoS Wojciech Purczynski (Dec 22)