Hi Hugo I guess it depends on how large the memory leak is and how often it would occur. A small memory leak is not a security problem. But if it occurs often and/or it is a very large thing seldom then it could cause DoS and then it is a security problem.
I do not have the details to judge that. Best regards // Ola On 13 December 2016 at 23:47, Hugo Lefeuvre <h...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Ola, > >> Sorry for my lack of understanding. But why do them memory have to be >> explicitly deallocated if exit is called? In what way is that a security >> issue? >> >> I´m asking as I have seen problems with deallocation more than once. >> Especially in error handlers. > > Thank you for the advice. You're right: if exit is called, memory leakage > is not really a problem since the operating system should handle the > deallocation. > > However, it looks like it is not the case of proxy_init in virtio-9p-proxy.c, > since the function just returns -1. > > But I'm not sure it's worth taking time for it... > > Cheers, > Hugo > > -- > Hugo Lefeuvre (hle) | www.owl.eu.com > 4096/ ACB7 B67F 197F 9B32 1533 431C AC90 AC3E C524 065E
