** Description changed:

  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.
+ cases eat up to 1GB or more of RAM, and can lead so system instability.
  
  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
+  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

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  oidentd spawns a new process for all new connections unless -l
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