Bug 207406

Summary: Memory leak in krb5-auth-dialog
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Simon Wilkinson <simon>
Component: krb5-auth-dialogAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Fix for creds structure leak none

Description Simon Wilkinson 2006-09-20 22:40:44 UTC 
Description of problem:

krb5-auth-dialog leaks memory every time it renews a 
credential - in a long running login session, this can 
become significant.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

0.6cvs20060212-1.1

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Renew credentials repeatedly
2. Watch memory usage grow

(Alternatively, attach valgrind and look at the leaked 
block report)
  
Actual results:

Memory is leaked

Expected results:

No memory is leaked

Additional info:

I'll attach the patch we're using locally for this issue. I should 
note that the commit to Gnome CVS which added support 
for renewable credentials also fixes the problem - so an 
alternative solution to the patch would be to upgrade 
the CVS revision in use.

Simon.
Comment 1 Simon Wilkinson 2006-09-20 22:40:44 UTC 
Created attachment 136793 [details]
Fix for creds structure leak
Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 03:48:31 UTC 
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Comment 3 Simon Wilkinson 2008-04-04 10:17:10 UTC 
This bug is resolved by the later versions of the package in newer versions of Fedora.