commit 2627299ef053ed40a73cb40e954e6b611d7e450b
Author: teor (Tim Wilson-Brown) <teor2...@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 4 18:41:49 2016 +0100

    Avoid freeing an uninitialised pointer in get_interface_addresses_ioctl
---
 changes/bug18454     | 8 ++++++++
 src/common/address.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/changes/bug18454 b/changes/bug18454
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c573dae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug18454
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
+    - Avoid freeing an uninitialised pointer when opening a socket fails
+      in get_interface_addresses_ioctl.
+      Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 9f06ec0c in tor-0.2.3.11-alpha.
+      Reported by "toralf" and "cypherpunks", patch by "teor".
+    - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list.
+      Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 110765f5 in tor-0.2.8.1-alpha.
+      Reported by "toralf", patch by "cypherpunks".
diff --git a/src/common/address.c b/src/common/address.c
index 8f1ce9d..c77b0f3 100644
--- a/src/common/address.c
+++ b/src/common/address.c
@@ -1525,6 +1525,7 @@ get_interface_addresses_ioctl(int severity, sa_family_t 
family)
 {
   /* Some older unixy systems make us use ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) */
   struct ifconf ifc;
+  ifc.ifc_buf = NULL;
   int fd;
   smartlist_t *result = NULL;
 
@@ -1547,7 +1548,6 @@ get_interface_addresses_ioctl(int severity, sa_family_t 
family)
   }
 
   int mult = 1;
-  ifc.ifc_buf = NULL;
   do {
     mult *= 2;
     ifc.ifc_len = mult * IFREQ_SIZE;



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