[Nagios-devel] memory leak in Nagios 2.x utils.c

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[Nagios-devel] memory leak in Nagios 2.x utils.c

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The following code in Nagios 2.10 utils.c contains a memory leak:

4885
if(service_result_buffer.items==check_result_buffer_slots){
4886
4887 /* record overflow */
4888 service_result_buffer.overflow++;
4889
4890 /* update tail pointer */
4891
service_result_buffer.tail=(service_result_buffer.tail + 1) %
check_result_buffer_slots;
4892 }

One needs the following lines between the overflow increment and the
tail increment:

/* We're about to discard the oldest result, to make room for the newest.
Make sure we don't create a memory leak in doing so. */
free (((service_message
**)service_result_buffer.buffer)[service_result_buffer.tail]);

Even if this code path is thought never to execute, the fix should still
be put in to guide developers who may need to modify the code base.



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