Bug#758660: sasl2-bin: saslauthd "Memory buffer error"

[Dan White]

On 08/19/14 20:00 +0200, Martin Sebald wrote:
>Package: sasl2-bin
>Version: 2.1.26.dfsg1-11
>Severity: important
>
>Hi,
>
>the saslauthd fails here on our mail server for weeks now. It seems that after
>a certain amount of login (successful and tries) a limit is reached and the
>daemon silently (!) fails - people cannot log into SASL-Auth anymore.
>
>I see the following in the log:
>
>Aug 19 19:44:41 server saslauthd[25483]: DEBUG: auth_pam: pam_authenticate
>failed: Memory buffer error
>
>After restarting everything works again until it happens again.
>
>We use cron to restart saslauthd every hour now, the only solution at the moment.

Martin,

Please provide details of your saslauthd config, /etc/default/saslauthd
and /etc/saslauthd.conf if you have one, and a list of which pam modules
you are using.

For a likely work around for this issue, see option '-n' in the saslauthd
manpage.

Thanks,
-- 
Dan White