* [2.28 COMMITTED] nscd: Deallocate existing user names in file parser
@ 2018-01-01 0:00 Florian Weimer
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From: Florian Weimer @ 2018-01-01 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: libc-stable
This avoids a theoretical memory leak (theoretical because it depends on
multiple server-user/stat-user directives in the configuration file).
(cherry picked from commit 2d7acfac3ebf266dcbc82d0d6cc576f626953a03)
2018-08-14 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
* nscd/nscd_conf.c (nscd_parse_file): Deallocate old storage for
server_user, stat_user.
diff --git a/nscd/nscd_conf.c b/nscd/nscd_conf.c
index 265a02434d..7293b795b6 100644
--- a/nscd/nscd_conf.c
+++ b/nscd/nscd_conf.c
@@ -190,7 +190,10 @@ nscd_parse_file (const char *fname, struct database_dyn dbs[lastdb])
if (!arg1)
error (0, 0, _("Must specify user name for server-user option"));
else
- server_user = xstrdup (arg1);
+ {
+ free ((char *) server_user);
+ server_user = xstrdup (arg1);
+ }
}
else if (strcmp (entry, "stat-user") == 0)
{
@@ -198,6 +201,7 @@ nscd_parse_file (const char *fname, struct database_dyn dbs[lastdb])
error (0, 0, _("Must specify user name for stat-user option"));
else
{
+ free ((char *) stat_user);
stat_user = xstrdup (arg1);
struct passwd *pw = getpwnam (stat_user);
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