NSCA memleak fix

Mark Ferlatte ferlatte at cryptio.net
Sat Oct 25 03:15:40 CEST 2003


Ethan Galstad said on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:53:53PM -0500:
> Thanks - I'll get this patched pronto.  It looks like the remaining 
> memory leak might be due to libmcrypt 2.4.x.  Upgrading to 2.5.x 
> should fix the problem, but I have not tried it yet.  Here's the 
> Security Focus report I just found:
> 
> http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6512
 
I'm using mcrypt 2.5.0 on Debian, which supposedly has a fix for that leak.  In
my tests this afternoon, the memory leak appears to be about 4 bytes, only
appears under fairly heavy load, and doesn't happen all the time.  :)

If I get a chance next week, I'll try upgrading mcrypt and trying again.

M
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