Bug 746886

Summary: severe memory leak in quagga 0.99.19-0.99.20
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: quaggaAssignee: Jiri Skala <jskala>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Vincent Danen 2011-10-18 05:17:11 UTC 
As noted in this thread on the quagga users mailing list [1], there is a severe memory leak in quagga that consumes a lot of memory very quickly.  According to the list messages, it was introduced in 0.99.19 and is not yet fixed, although a patch was posted [2] that looks to have solved the problem.

We may want to patch quagga now (I see 0.99.20 in -testing) to prevent users having to suffer through major memory problems.

[1] http://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-users/2011-October/012529.html
[2] http://patchwork.diac24.net/patch/402/

(As an aside, this came to us as a possible security flaw, but I think this should be classified more as a really bad bug than a security flaw since just starting quagga is causing the problem).

Perhaps it is doable to respin the 0.99.20 packages in -testing to get this patch included?  Thanks!
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2011-10-18 08:24:37 UTC 
quagga-0.99.20-2.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-13504
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2011-10-18 08:25:09 UTC 
quagga-0.99.20-2.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-13499
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2011-10-18 08:25:13 UTC 
quagga-0.99.20-2.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-13492
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2011-10-18 22:15:31 UTC 
quagga-0.99.20-2.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2011-10-18 22:19:43 UTC 
quagga-0.99.20-2.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2011-10-19 04:39:25 UTC 
quagga-0.99.20-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.