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acpi-call package

acpi-call can leak memory from parse_acpi_args calls

Bug #1829883 reported by Colin Ian King
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
acpi-call (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
acpi-call (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Colin Ian King

Bug Description

The call to parse_acpi_args can allocate args so these need free'ing even when the function returns a null method object.

Colin Ian King (colin-king)
Changed in acpi-call (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Colin Ian King (colin-king)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → In Progress
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Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

Filed bug with the fix, hopefully will land in Debian and auto-sync to Ubuntu

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in acpi-call (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in acpi-call (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

Currently 1.1.0-5 in eoan-proposed

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package acpi-call - 1.1.0-5

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acpi-call (1.1.0-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [302afec] Migrate project to Salsa
  * [a412748] Use secure copyright file specification URI.
    Thanks to Jelmer Vernooij
  * [c633d47] Add patch to fix memory leak.
    Thanks to Colin Ian King for the patch (Closes: #929316) (LP: #1829883)
  * [8f5f753] Don't build module when ACPI is disabled.
    Thanks to Seth Forshee, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Michael Jeanson and
    others for ideas and testing (LP: #1830040)
  * [757be2b] Bump Standards-Version to 4.3.0
  * [1e7e83a] Override lintian warning about missing test suite

 -- Raphaël Halimi <email address hidden> Fri, 31 May 2019 17:33:13 +0200

Changed in acpi-call (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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