Mark Martinec wrote:
> There were some recent reports that a mail message with large
> and mangled header could cause perl regular expressions used in
> parsing a header to exceed available memory due to deep recursion,
> and cause amavisd process to crash, letting such messages to stay
> stuck in a MTA queue, reporting unsightly 'process went away'
> by amavisd-nanny, and leaving behind temporary directories.
> 
> It is not a security threat, but is annoying nevertheless,
> so I decided to release a last maintenance release of 2.5,
> collecting all bug fixes that have accumulated by now, and
> leave all new features to 2.6 (to be pre-released soon).
> 
> amavisd-new-2.5.3-rc1 release candidate is available at:
> 
>   http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/amavisd-new-2.5.3-rc1.tar.gz
> 
> Please try it out - I plan to release it in two or three days.
> There are no compatibility issues with 2.5.2.

No issues seen thus far.

MrC

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