About Memory Leak of kinit with pkinit Plugin

Russ Allbery eagle at eyrie.org
Mon Sep 22 18:29:21 EDT 2014


Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com> writes:

> PAM modules are loaded and unloaded at each use, I wonder if this will
> causes issues (or merely keep the leak in check) in pam_krb5 when pkinit
> is configured.

Yes, pam_krb5 with MIT Kerberos and OpenSSL and the PKINIT module
installed does leak memory, I believe.  I've been worried about that for a
while.

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Russ Allbery (eagle at eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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