Bug 1536765

Summary: Libguestfs Perl bindings can leak a small amount of memory on error
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Demi Marie Obenour 2018-01-20 22:18:54 UTC 
Description of problem:

The libguestfs Perl bindings can leak a small amount of memory, if there is a missing entry in an array.  Specifically, `croak()` is called, which leaks a pointer allocated with `malloc()`.
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2018-01-22 17:06:44 UTC 
Patch posted:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-January/msg00183.html
Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2018-01-22 17:57:35 UTC 
Fixed in >= 1.37.36.