No, it's not resolved. I was applying this patch to the package in Debian, but after looking a bit closer I'm not so sure anymore. The problem that the patch attempts to solve is that th_get_pathname() in some cases (namely, if gnu_longname is not set) strdup()s a local buffer. But th_get_pathname() is a part of the public API, so all applications that use libtar might get *more* memory leaks until they are updated. And they can't free the memory unless they know that it's malloc()ed, so it's an incompatible change.
Then there's the similar function th_get_pathname(), which never returns a strdup()ed string. Another suggestion is to make the buffer static: http://downloads.diy-linux.org/patches/OLD/PM/libtar-1.2.11.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41804 Title: Major memory leak -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
