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

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 01:24:40PM +0200, Martin Ettl wrote:
> > 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
>
> i can't acces the URL:
>
> http://www.tcpdump.org/#needs

Hmm, I cut and pasted it from my browser only yesterday, but now I can't
access it either. I get a host unreachable from 209.87.252.134. It's
probably a temporary error. Try again later and try their "how to help"
link.

David Fifield

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