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Bug 1810146

Summary:	glibc: getaddrinfo: Fix resource leak after strdup failure in gethosts [BZ #25425]
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Carlos O'Donell <codonell>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Carlos O'Donell <codonell>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-tools-bugs
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:	Zuzana Zoubkova <zzoubkov>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	8.3	CC:	ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, lmanasko, mnewsome, pfrankli, sipoyare, skolosov
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Patch, Triaged
Target Release:	8.3	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	glibc-2.28-112.el8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	.`getaddrinfo` now correctly handles a memory allocation failure Previously, after a memory allocation failure, the `getaddrinfo` function of the GNU C Library `glibc` did not release the internal resolver context. As a consequence, `getaddrinfo` was not able to reload the `/etc/resolv.conf` file for the rest of the lifetime of the calling thread, resulting in a possible memory leak. This update modifies the error handling path with an additional release operation for the resolver context. As a result, `getaddrinfo` reloads `/etc/resolv.conf` with new configuration values even after an intermittent memory allocation failure.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-11-04 01:33:21 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1819986
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Description Carlos O'Donell 2020-03-04 15:43:14 UTC

There is a resource leak in gethosts after a strdup failure. We should fix this.

No extra test provided. To verify this you have to trigger the strdup failure manually and observe the resource leaks.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=8b222fa38700422b4da6731806835f0bbf40920d

commit 8b222fa38700422b4da6731806835f0bbf40920d
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Date:   Mon Jan 20 18:37:13 2020 +0100

    getaddrinfo: Fix resource leak after strdup failure in gethosts [BZ #25425]
    
    Filip Ochnik spotted that one of the error jumps in gethosts fails to
    call __resolv_context_put to release the resolver context.
    
    Fixes commit 352f4ff9a268b81ef5d4b2413f582565806e4790 ("resolv:
    Introduce struct resolv_context [BZ #21668]") and commit
    964263bb8d650f1681665c55704fb01a8e725621 ("getaddrinfo: Release
    resolver context on error in gethosts [BZ #21885]").
    
    Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh>

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 01:33:21 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4444