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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=cf8fe0d6e74fdc6970ceb17e44ec9f67901120b8 commit cf8fe0d6e74fdc6970ceb17e44ec9f67901120b8 Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> AuthorDate: Sun Aug 16 23:02:56 2020 +0200 libdpkg: Fix memory leaks in tar_extractor() We need to free the members when assigning into them for the GNU longlink and longname extensions. Warned-by: gcc ASAN Stable-Candidate: 1.19.x --- lib/dpkg/tarfn.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/dpkg/tarfn.c b/lib/dpkg/tarfn.c index a0821f217..41641b934 100644 --- a/lib/dpkg/tarfn.c +++ b/lib/dpkg/tarfn.c @@ -474,11 +474,15 @@ tar_extractor(struct tar_archive *tar) } if (h.type != TAR_FILETYPE_GNU_LONGLINK && h.type != TAR_FILETYPE_GNU_LONGNAME) { - if (next_long_name) + if (next_long_name) { + free(h.name); h.name = next_long_name; + } - if (next_long_link) + if (next_long_link) { + free(h.linkname); h.linkname = next_long_link; + } next_long_link = NULL; next_long_name = NULL; -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg