Bug#746511: sasl2-bin: memory leak

[Dan White]

On 04/30/14 22:04 +0200, Andreas Edler wrote:
>Package: sasl2-bin
>Version: 2.1.23.dfsg1-7
>Severity: important
>
>Over time saslauthd will grab more and more "apps memory", and it appears
>it never frees it up again.
>
>Find attached a memory usage graph.  The drops in usage are a result of
>restarting saslauthd only, nothing else has been done at these times.
>
>
>-- System Information:
>Debian Release: 6.0.9
>  APT prefers oldstable-updates
>  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
>Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
>Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
>Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
>Versions of packages sasl2-bin depends on:
>ii  db4.8-util          4.8.30-2             Berkeley v4.8 Database Utilities
>ii  debconf [debconf-2. 1.5.36.1             Debian configuration management sy
>ii  libc6               2.11.3-4             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
>ii  libcomerr2          1.41.12-4stable1     common error description library
>ii  libdb4.8            4.8.30-2             Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
>ii  libgssapi-krb5-2    1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
>ii  libk5crypto3        1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
>ii  libkrb5-3           1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
>ii  libkrb5support0     1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - S
>ii  libldap-2.4-2       2.4.23-7.3           OpenLDAP libraries
>ii  libpam0g            1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1   Pluggable Authentication Modules l
>ii  libsasl2-2          2.1.23.dfsg1-7       Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
>ii  libssl0.9.8         0.9.8o-4squeeze14    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=1
>OPTIONS="-m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r"
>PWDIR="/var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd"
>PARAMS="-m ${PWDIR}"
>PIDFILE="${PWDIR}/saslauthd.pid"
>
>
>-- debconf information:
>  cyrus-sasl2/backup-sasldb2: /var/backups/sasldb2.bak
>  cyrus-sasl2/upgrade-sasldb2-failed:
>  cyrus-sasl2/upgrade-sasldb2-backup-failed:
>  cyrus-sasl2/purge-sasldb2: false

Please provide the PAM module(s) which are at play here.

-- 
Dan White