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Oliver Kurth |
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| 2019-10-09 11:58:16 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
bug watch added |
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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=941955 |
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| 2019-10-09 11:58:16 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
bug task added |
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open-vm-tools (Debian) |
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| 2019-10-09 11:58:43 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
nominated for series |
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Ubuntu Disco |
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| 2019-10-09 11:58:43 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
bug task added |
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open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Disco) |
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| 2019-10-09 11:58:43 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
nominated for series |
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Ubuntu Bionic |
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| 2019-10-09 11:58:43 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
bug task added |
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open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Bionic) |
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| 2019-10-09 12:10:32 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
bug |
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added subscriber Ubuntu Server |
| 2019-10-09 12:10:36 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
tags |
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server-next |
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| 2019-10-09 12:10:39 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): assignee |
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Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) |
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| 2019-10-09 12:13:02 |
Launchpad Janitor |
merge proposal linked |
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https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+git/open-vm-tools/+merge/373871 |
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| 2019-10-09 12:15:55 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): status |
New |
Triaged |
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| 2019-10-09 12:15:57 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Bionic): status |
New |
Triaged |
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| 2019-10-09 12:16:00 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Bionic): importance |
Undecided |
Medium |
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| 2019-10-09 12:16:02 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Disco): importance |
Undecided |
Medium |
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| 2019-10-09 12:16:03 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Disco): status |
New |
Triaged |
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| 2019-10-09 12:16:06 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): importance |
Undecided |
High |
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| 2019-10-09 12:22:01 |
Bug Watch Updater |
open-vm-tools (Debian): status |
Unknown |
New |
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| 2019-10-09 12:24:24 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
description |
We have discovered a few memory leaks in open-vm-tools, related to the vix plugin. We have created a branch for 10.3.10 on github that includes fixes: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/stable-10.3.10-vix-memory-leaks
Also reported at Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=941955 |
[Impact]
* Upstream identified memory leaks in the VIX plugin.
* Patches fixing the mem leaks are provdied by upstream and
requested to be added to the Ubuntu package of open-vm-tools.
[Test Case]
* TL;DR: use the VIX plugin which might be easier said than done :-/
And check memory consumption over time.
I have asked the reporter if he could add some real examples/commands.
[Regression Potential]
* The changes really are only about properly freeing stuff.
If anything I'd expect that to be done overzealous and due to that a
use-after free issue.
Fortunately (but also the reason this is "only" medium) this only
would affect users of the VIX plugin [1] which isn't affecting all
users of the tools (yet TBH I don't know a percentage).
Coming from upstream and beeing not too huge I feel rather safe on
these patches.
[1]: https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/
[Other Info]
* n/a
--- original report ---
We have discovered a few memory leaks in open-vm-tools, related to the vix plugin. We have created a branch for 10.3.10 on github that includes fixes: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/stable-10.3.10-vix-memory-leaks
Also reported at Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=941955 |
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| 2019-10-09 16:35:05 |
Launchpad Janitor |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): status |
Triaged |
Fix Released |
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| 2019-10-10 08:52:48 |
Launchpad Janitor |
merge proposal linked |
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https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+git/open-vm-tools/+merge/373944 |
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| 2019-10-10 08:54:24 |
Launchpad Janitor |
merge proposal linked |
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https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+git/open-vm-tools/+merge/373945 |
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| 2019-10-10 14:48:33 |
Bug Watch Updater |
open-vm-tools (Debian): status |
New |
Fix Committed |
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| 2019-10-14 18:28:51 |
Bug Watch Updater |
open-vm-tools (Debian): status |
Fix Committed |
Fix Released |
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| 2019-10-15 06:55:45 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): assignee |
Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) |
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| 2019-10-15 06:55:48 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Bionic): assignee |
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Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) |
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| 2019-10-15 06:55:50 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Disco): assignee |
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Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) |
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| 2019-10-24 13:58:47 |
Łukasz Zemczak |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Disco): status |
Triaged |
Fix Committed |
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| 2019-10-24 13:58:49 |
Łukasz Zemczak |
bug |
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added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team |
| 2019-10-24 13:58:51 |
Łukasz Zemczak |
bug |
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added subscriber SRU Verification |
| 2019-10-24 13:58:54 |
Łukasz Zemczak |
tags |
server-next |
server-next verification-needed verification-needed-disco |
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| 2019-10-24 14:00:32 |
Łukasz Zemczak |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Bionic): status |
Triaged |
Fix Committed |
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| 2019-10-24 14:00:40 |
Łukasz Zemczak |
tags |
server-next verification-needed verification-needed-disco |
server-next verification-needed verification-needed-bionic verification-needed-disco |
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| 2019-10-25 16:19:53 |
John Savanyo |
bug |
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added subscriber John Savanyo |
| 2019-10-25 16:44:19 |
John Savanyo |
bug |
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added subscriber vmware-gos-qa |
| 2019-10-25 16:52:44 |
John Savanyo |
bug |
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added subscriber vmware-gos-Yuhua |
| 2019-12-16 07:28:25 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
tags |
server-next verification-needed verification-needed-bionic verification-needed-disco |
server-next verification-done verification-done-bionic verification-done-disco |
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| 2020-01-16 14:22:06 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Bionic): status |
Fix Committed |
Fix Released |
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| 2020-01-16 14:22:11 |
Christian Ehrhardt |
open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Disco): status |
Fix Committed |
Fix Released |
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