Bug 627630 - rpm: selinux context initialization memory leak
Summary: rpm: selinux context initialization memory leak
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rpm
Version: 5.5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Depends On: 566746
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-08-26 14:44 UTC by RHEL Program Management
Modified: 2014-01-21 06:19 UTC (History)
19 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
A memory leak in the communication between RPM and the Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) subsystem could have caused extensive memory consumption. In reported cases, this issue was triggered by running rhn_check when errata were scheduled to be applied.
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-09-07 14:32:40 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2010:0679 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: rpm security and bug fix update 2010-09-07 14:32:33 UTC

Description RHEL Program Management 2010-08-26 14:44:56 UTC 
This bug has been copied from bug #566746 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2010-09-07 14:32:40 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0679.html
Comment 7 Eva Kopalova 2010-12-20 12:25:42 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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    New Contents:
A memory leak in the communication between RPM and the Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) subsystem could have caused extensive memory consumption. In reported cases, this issue was triggered by running rhn_check when errata were scheduled to be applied.
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