[Unbound-users] Leak in 1.4.14?

W.C.A. Wijngaards wouter at NLnetLabs.nl
Sat Dec 24 11:35:08 UTC 2011


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Hi Robert,

On 12/22/2011 05:07 PM, Robert Fleischman wrote:
> In "outside_network.c", the function:  "outnet_serviced_query" has two
> calls inside "if" statements:
> 
> "if (!serviced_udp_send(...)"
>        and
> "if (!serviced_tcp_send(...)"
> 
> in those error branches, I STRONGLY believe we need a:
> 
> "free(sq->zone);"
> 
> inserted after the "free(sq->qbuf);"
> 
> Otherwise, it LEAKS the "memdup()"'d sq->zone!
> 
> My tests show:
>    Without those free()'s, it leaks.
>    Put them in, all is good.
> 
> I haven't done the analysis on "how bad" this is.  It might be a minor thing.

Thanks for the patch!  The sq->zone was added in a fix recently, hence
this mistake.

Fixes are in svn trunk r2578.

The effect is that leaked zone, a domain name, about 10-20 bytes.  It
leaks when udp or tcp send fails, such as socket errors from the OS.

Best regards,
   Wouter
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