[19018] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: About Memory Leak of kinit with pkinit Plugin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Mon Sep 22 18:29:34 2014
From: Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
To: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
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Sorce's message of "Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:15:14 -0400")
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:29:21 -0700
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Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com> writes:
> PAM modules are loaded and unloaded at each use, I wonder if this will
> causes issues (or merely keep the leak in check) in pam_krb5 when pkinit
> is configured.
Yes, pam_krb5 with MIT Kerberos and OpenSSL and the PKINIT module
installed does leak memory, I believe. I've been worried about that for a
while.
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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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