Potential memory leak in sshd [detected by melton]
Ángel González
keisial at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 09:04:07 EST 2012
On 04/02/12 02:55, Zhenbo Xu wrote:
> The url below is the index of bug reports that are checked as real
> bugs manually.
>
> http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/~xuzb/bugsfound/memleak/openssh-5.9p1/realbugs/sshd/index.html
>
>
> Shall we fix these bugs? Or just let them go since they are not so serious?
>
> Hope for your replies!
The 10th report is another false positive:
Logic error Memory leak auth-options.i 10587 28 View Report
<http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/%7Exuzb/bugsfound/memleak/openssh-5.9p1/realbugs/sshd/report-mVEeJj.html#EndPath>
http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/~xuzb/bugsfound/memleak/openssh-5.9p1/realbugs/sshd/report-mVEeJj.html#EndPath
Melton complains that in line 10587 the memory of data wasn't released,
but there's a call to buffer_free(&data);
in line 10585.
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