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Memory leak in 2.xx


From: Sam Varshavchik
Subject: Memory leak in 2.xx
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:21:54 -0500

In 2.12.14 _rsa_generate_params() has a stray "tmp = _gnutls_mpi_alloc_like (resarr[0]);". The malloc-ed memory never gets freed.

Looks like this code is gone in 3.x, so only 2.x is impacted.

This is called from gnutls_x509_privkey_generate(). A long-running application that keeps creating private keys, for temporary use, and destroying them after use, will end up leaking memory. This is also in the code path for temporary RSA parameter generation when using export-grade RSA keys. This will also leak memory.


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