>Number:         22479
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Memory leak in arp
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 14 09:47:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bo Helleskov
>Release:        1.6.1_STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD zilliger.helleskov.dk 1.6.1_STABLE NetBSD 1.6.1_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Wed Aug  6 21:22:53 CEST 2003 root@zilliger.helleskov.dk:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

>Description:
The arp command allocates memory in two places. In line 415 and and line 490, but it never calls free.

>How-To-Repeat:
Since arp only allocates a low amount of memory (on my machine if was 674 bytes) you need to run it a couple of hundred thousand times to watch how memory start to disappear.


>Fix:
I've created a patch that works aginst the latest version of arp, version 1.38


462a463
>       free(buf);
501a503
>       free(buf);



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