Bug#153915: saslauthd mem size grows too much

[Andreas Rehm]

Package: sasl2-bin
Version: 2.1.23.dfsg1-7
Severity: normal

The memory leaks seems to be caused by failed authentication tries.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sasl2-bin depends on:
ii  db4.8-util              4.8.30-2         Berkeley v4.8 Database Utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.36.1         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcomerr2              1.41.12-2        common error description library
ii  libdb4.8                4.8.30-2         Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2        1.8.3+dfsg-4     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libk5crypto3            1.8.3+dfsg-4     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3               1.8.3+dfsg-4     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libkrb5support0         1.8.3+dfsg-4     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - S
ii  libldap-2.4-2           2.4.23-7         OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                1.1.1-6.1        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libsasl2-2              2.1.23.dfsg1-7   Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8o-4squeeze1 SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

sasl2-bin recommends no packages.

sasl2-bin suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/saslauthd changed:
START=yes
DESC="SASL Authentication Daemon"
NAME="saslauthd"
MECHANISMS="pam"
MECH_OPTIONS=""
THREADS=3
OPTIONS="-s 5000 -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd"


-- debconf information:
  cyrus-sasl2/backup-sasldb2: /var/backups/sasldb2.bak
  cyrus-sasl2/purge-sasldb2: false
  cyrus-sasl2/upgrade-sasldb2-failed:
  cyrus-sasl2/upgrade-sasldb2-backup-failed: