From 8a31d3b93a492c583ccd97a5a27ab4cb466ff138 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Andree Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:51:49 +0000 Subject: SSL_free(context) when SSL_connect fails, plugging memleak. By Seiichi Ikarashi. svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=5237 --- NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5b89f6b3..57bf52b6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ fetchmail 6.3.9 (not yet released): * Only print "Deleting fetchids file" if there actually is one. Fixes Debian Bug#374514, reported by Dan Jacobson. * SSL fix: check and report if SSL_set_fd fails. +* SSL fix: close memory leak when SSL connection fails; fetchmail used to forget + calling SSL_free() on the SSL context, leaking in excess of 1/2 MB RAM on a + x86_64 system per failed SSL connection attempt. + Bug reported and patch provided by Seiichi Ikarashi, Fujitsu. # CHANGES: * autoconf 2.60 is now required to build fetchmail; it uses -- cgit v1.2.3