httpd: memory hole in function addEnv() and more

Rainer Weikusat rainer.weikusat at sncag.com
Mon Sep 5 10:57:59 UTC 2005


Richard Kojedzinszky <krichy at tvnetwork.hu> writes:
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Vladimir N. Oleynik wrote:

[...]

>> No.
>> man putenv()
>> see libc incompatibility memory allocated sections.
> And as I saw, it is always called in the cgi child, so there is no memory
> leak in long time. Correct me if i am wrong.

Technically, you are right. Politically, busybox does not want to rely
on UNIX(*) semantics for anything, and so it should probably be called
'a memory leak by descision'.



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