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bug#19578: Memory leaks in coreutils/lib/locale_charset.c
From: |
Daiki Ueno |
Subject: |
bug#19578: Memory leaks in coreutils/lib/locale_charset.c |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:35:05 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Zhaopeng Li <address@hidden> writes:
> At line 534 of coreutils/lib/locale_charset.c, var ‘aliases' points
> to a buffer which is allocated using malloc() .
> This buffer is not freed when codeset is still an empty string after
> the loop (Line 534~542).
>
> So it will be leaked under such situation.
> Line 533 /* Resolve alias. */
> Line 534 for (aliases = get_charset_aliases ();
I got the same error from clang-analyzer, but I think the leak is
intentional and harmless. The return value of get_charset_aliases is
saved in a global variable charset_aliases and won't be allocated twice.
Regards,
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Daiki Ueno