Memory leak found with RSA method

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Memory leak found with RSA method

tatsuhiro-t opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa commented 5 years ago

The default RSA method calls static rsa_ossl_finish to free BN_MONT_CTX_free objects.
If neverbleed RSA method is used, this function is not called, thus these objects are leaked.
The proposed fix is tatsuhiro-t@003de52

Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa · Answer 1 · Fri Sep 06 2019 23:02:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Note that I found this memory leak when I run TLS client. I'm not sure server is also affected.

Kazuho Oku · Answer 2 · Mon Sep 09 2019 10:53:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thank for reporting the issue as well as providing a fix.

Yeah I think this would be an issue on the server-side as well, if the server discards RSA keys while running.