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[Bug regex/24844] regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
- From: "carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 19:29:23 +0000
- Subject: [Bug regex/24844] regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
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- References: <bug-24844-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24844
Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to eggert from comment #0)
> Created attachment 11919 [details]
> Patch for bad pointer / leak in regex_internal.c
>
> regex_internal.c mistreats malloc failures in a couple of places. In one, it
> dereferences the resulting NULL pointer; in the other, it leaks another
> block of memory when an malloc fails. The latter problem was found by
> Coverity. Proposed patch attached.
Please post to libc-alpha if you think this should be fixed for 2.30.
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