Bug#1004740: exim4: SIGSEGV (maybe attempt to write to immutable memory) when sending a mail; message frozen

Tue Feb 1 13:44:21 GMT 2022

Package: exim4
Version: 4.95-3
Severity: serious

When sending a mail:

[...]
2022-02-01 14:23:22 1nEt2b-0008jG-97 H=mx2.mailchannels.net [34.214.163.59]: SMTP error from remote mail server after DATA: 450 [S09] Try Again Later
2022-02-01 14:23:22 1nEt2b-0008jG-97 H=mx2.mailchannels.net [34.214.163.59] TLS error on connection (recv): The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.
2022-02-01 14:23:23 1nEt2b-0008jG-97 SIGSEGV (maybe attempt to write to immutable memory)
2022-02-01 14:23:23 1nEt2b-0008jG-97 Delivery status for xxx at yyy: got 0 of 7 bytes (pipeheader) from transport process 35015 for transport smtp

2022-02-01 14:23:23 1nEt2b-0008jG-97 == xxx at yyy R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-1): smtp transport process returned non-zero status 0x000b: terminated by signal 11
2022-02-01 14:23:23 1nEt7z-00096o-IX <= <> R=1nEt2b-0008jG-97 U=Debian-exim P=local S=783
2022-02-01 14:23:23 1nEt2b-0008jG-97 Frozen
2022-02-01 14:23:23 1nEt7z-00096o-IX => vlefevre <postmaster at cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr> R=local_user T=maildir_home
2022-02-01 14:23:23 1nEt7z-00096o-IX Completed
2022-02-01 14:23:23 End queue run: pid=35012
2022-02-01 14:28:19 Start queue run: pid=35460
2022-02-01 14:28:19 1nEt2b-0008jG-97 Message is frozen
2022-02-01 14:28:19 End queue run: pid=35460
[...]

The consequence is that the mail is not sent, there are no retries,
and the end user is not warned. So, from the end user point of view,
the message is *silently lost*.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.95 #2 built 16-Dec-2021 18:26:32
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2018
(c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 - 2020
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September  9, 2013)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS TLS_resume move_frozen_messages DANE DKIM DNSSEC Event I18N OCSP PIPE_CONNECT PRDR Experimental_Queue_Ramp SOCKS SRS TCP_Fast_Open
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmjz dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 external plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Configure owner: 0:0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file search path is /etc/exim4/exim4.conf:/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to generate
# exim configuration macros for the configuration file.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
dc_other_hostnames='cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1 ; ::1'
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost=''
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname=''
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='maildir_home'
mailname:cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr
# /etc/default/exim4
EX4DEF_VERSION=''

# 'combined' -	 one daemon running queue and listening on SMTP port
# 'no'       -	 no daemon running the queue
# 'separate' -	 two separate daemons
# 'ppp'      -   only run queue with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim4.
# 'nodaemon' - no daemon is started at all.
# 'queueonly' - only a queue running daemon is started, no SMTP listener.
# setting this to 'no' will also disable queueruns from /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim4
QUEUERUNNER='combined'
# how often should we run the queue
QUEUEINTERVAL='5m'
# options common to quez-runner and listening daemon
COMMONOPTIONS=''
# more options for the daemon/process running the queue (applies to the one
# started in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim4, too.
QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS=''
# special flags given to exim directly after the -q. See exim(8)
QFLAGS=''
# Options for the SMTP listener daemon. By default, it is listening on
# port 25 only. To listen on more ports, it is recommended to use
# -oX 25:587:10025 -oP /var/run/exim4/exim.pid
SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS=''

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.79
ii  exim4-base             4.95-3
ii  exim4-daemon-light     4.95-3

exim4 recommends no packages.

exim4 suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  exim4/drec:

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