Memory leak in 2.xx

[Sam Varshavchik]

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos writes:

> On 03/08/2012 02:21 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
> > In 2.12.14 _rsa_generate_params() has a stray "tmp =
> > _gnutls_mpi_alloc_like (resarr[0]);". The malloc-ed memory never gets
> > freed.
> >
> > Looks like this code is gone in 3.x, so only 2.x is impacted.
> > This is called from gnutls_x509_privkey_generate(). A long-running
> > application that keeps creating private keys, for temporary use, and
> > destroying them after use, will end up leaking memory. This is also in
> > the code path for temporary RSA parameter generation when using
> > export-grade RSA keys. This will also leak memory.
>
>
> Thank you for reporting it. I've applied the patch by Tomas[0]. Does
> it fix the issue you see?
>
> [0].
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/? 
> p=gnutls.git;a=commitdiff;h=ff19ba8b9c5540e46ec876f264ffdbb92cfcf8c9

Indeed, this fix does the trick.