Bugs item #1698974, was opened at 2007-04-12 07:18
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Category: None
Group: bad behaviour
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: songma (songmash)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Memory leak vulnerability in source file "if2ip.c"

Initial Comment:
Hi,

I found there's one memory problem in source file "if2ip.c". In function "Curl_if2ip()" it has the following statements:

" 85 char *Curl_if2ip(const char *interface, char *buf, int buf_size)
     86 {
     87 int dummy;
     88 char *ip=NULL;
     89
     90 if(!interface)
     91 return NULL;
     92
     93 dummy = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
     94 if (SYS_ERROR == dummy) {
     95 return NULL;
     96 }
     97 else {
     98 struct ifreq req;
     99 size_t len = strlen(interface);
    100 memset(&req, 0, sizeof(req));
    101 if(len >= sizeof(req.ifr_name))
    102 return NULL; /* this can't be a fine interface name */
     ... ...
"

At line 93 it opened a socket and return the socket file descriptor. but at line 102, if the size of system interface name is bigger than the given size "
req.ifr_name" the function will exit and return NULL. However I think the function "Curl_if2ip" shall close the socket it opened at line 93 first thus to release all resource related with it. Otherwise this opened socket will never be closed by someone.

The fix may looks like:
    101 if(len >= sizeof(req.ifr_name)) {
    102 sclose(dummy);
    103 return NULL; /* this can't be a fine interface name */
    104 }

Best Regards,
Song Ma

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