Fix memory leak in __printf_fp_l (bug 26215)
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Jul 10 07:20:27 GMT 2020
* Joseph Myers:
> __printf_fp_l has a memory leak in the case of some I/O errors, where
> both buffer and wbuffer have been malloced but the handling of I/O
> errors only frees wbuffer. This patch fixes this by moving the
> declaration of buffer to an outer scope and ensuring that it is freed
> when wbuffer is freed.
Do we need to treat this as a securityh vulnerability? I don't think
so, because there are no impacted applications as far as I can tell.
Thanks,
Florian
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