Sendmail Security Hole

[Scott Martin]

Are you aware that any linux kernel prior to 2.2.16 has security hole in it
which can be accessed through sendmail? I recommend you upgrade your kernel
if you are using sendmail. Please read:
http://www.sendmail.org/sendmail.8.10.1.LINUX-SECURITY.txt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Crowley" <ccrowley@tulane.edu>
To: <imp@lists.horde.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [imp] MySQL session limits.


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Boutilier" <boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca>
>
> "Patrick Boutilier" wrote:
> > We have that problem running on a Dell 2300 (PII450 w/512 Meg RAM) as
> well. We
> > are using Linux kernel 2.2.18pre11 and it hasn't happenned as much
lately.
> What
> > OS are you using?
> >
>
> Linux 2.2.14-5.0. Is an upgrade suggested? I may first set up another
> machine as the DB server, and see if that alleviates the problem.
>
> >
> > What version of MySql?
> >
>
> mysql  Ver 9.38 Distrib 3.22.32, for pc-linux-gnu (i686)
>
>
> > The table doesn't get cleared when mysqld restarts. However I have
noticed
> that
> > when a user logs out their session record does not get deleted from the
> active
> > sessions table. Is this normal behaviour?
> >
>
> Maybe I am jumping on a misnomer of the table. I guess the real issue here
> is, "when does the size of  the active_sessions table adversely affect
> system performance?"  I think  I should know this before I try a hardware
> solution to this problem.
>
> Chris
>
>
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