Bug 1894630 - Memory leak in pam_start()
Summary: Memory leak in pam_start()
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pam
Version: 33
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Iker Pedrosa
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-11-04 16:36 UTC by Andreas Schneider
Modified: 2020-11-13 03:47 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pam-1.4.0-7.fc33
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Last Closed: 2020-11-13 03:47:15 UTC
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Description Andreas Schneider 2020-11-04 16:36:20 UTC 
Description of problem:

libpam has a memory with pam_start()/pam_start_confdir(). Please fix.

Patches are available here:

https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/pull/291

https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/pull/291.patch
Comment 1 Iker Pedrosa 2020-11-05 16:27:44 UTC 
Thanks for reporting it. I'll start with downstream port.
Comment 2 Iker Pedrosa 2020-11-05 16:29:07 UTC 
* master:
    777b2da07545faa51ebb6d046135702f2a01d30e - libpam: Fix memory leak with pam_start_confdir()
    7c084a6511b0dec9e76b6e550baf0342575ff1b7 - libpam: Fix memory leak on error path in _pam_start_internal()
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2020-11-11 10:11:20 UTC 
FEDORA-2020-c9791e3a19 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-c9791e3a19
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2020-11-12 04:25:00 UTC 
FEDORA-2020-c9791e3a19 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 testing repository.
In short time you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2020-c9791e3a19`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-c9791e3a19

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2020-11-13 03:47:15 UTC 
FEDORA-2020-c9791e3a19 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
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