Re: found a resource leak in file nmap-5.0/libpap/pcap-dlpi.c

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:09:45AM +0200, Martin Ettl wrote:
> i have checked the sources of nmap-5.00 with the static code analyis
> tool cppcheck (http://cppcheck.wiki.sourceforge.net/). It found a
> resource leak in file nmap-5.0/libpap/pcap-dlpi.c at line 1097 in
> function pcap_platform_finddevs(...).
>
> The tool prints the following output:
>
> /nmap-5.00/libpcap/pcap-dlpi.c,1097,error,Resource leak: fd

Thanks for the report. It is a real leak. libpcap is an outside project
whose source is included with Nmap. It would help if you could check if
this problem exists in a current version of libpcap, and if so, report
it to the developers.

http://www.tcpdump.org/#needs

David Fifield

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