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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Martin Blapp <mb...@imp.ch> on 2007/07/20 09:00:30 UTC

DOS-Attack with PDFText Plugin

Hi all,

We had this night a DOS Attack with well prepared PDFs. Those PDFs
had wrong image offsets (looks like they generated a loop in pdfimages.
The result was that some pdfimages commands were hangin around and
generating thousands of pictures. The commands where using all
system time and slowing down the system significantly.

I'm working on a fix.

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Martin

Martin Blapp, <mb...@imp.ch> <mb...@FreeBSD.org>
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