Bug 678594 - memory leak on SSL connection failure
Summary: memory leak on SSL connection failure
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: curl
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Kamil Dudka
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-18 15:02 UTC by Kamil Dudka
Modified: 2011-05-19 13:12 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
libcurl leaked memory when an SSL connection failed. This is now fixed to prevent the memory leak during an SSL connection failure.
Clone Of:
: 1071254 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-05-19 13:12:42 UTC
Target Upstream Version:

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:0573 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE curl bug fix update 2011-05-18 17:57:02 UTC

Description Kamil Dudka 2011-02-18 15:02:29 UTC 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
curl-7.19.7-20.el6


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. ./runtests.pl -a -k -p -v 305 404
2. open valgrind logs


Actual results:
32 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 35 of 85
   at 0x4A05E46: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:195)
   by 0x4C3A4DE: Curl_llist_alloc (llist.c:49)
   by 0x4C4B0E6: Curl_nss_connect (nss.c:1132)
   by 0x4C42DEA: Curl_ssl_connect (sslgen.c:185)
   by 0x4C21CC8: Curl_http_connect (http.c:1795)
   by 0x4C2E1A1: Curl_protocol_connect (url.c:3071)
   by 0x4C2E541: Curl_connect (url.c:4737)
   by 0x4C36939: Curl_perform (transfer.c:2488)
   by 0x408480: main (main.c:5002)


Upstream commit:
https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/a40f58d
Comment 7 Misha H. Ali 2011-04-20 06:17:29 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
libcurl leaked  memory when an SSL connection failed. This is now fixed to prevent the memory leak during an SSL connection failure.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:12:42 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/RHBA-2011-0573.html
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