Bug#845569: exim4-daemon-heavy: Memory leak in callouts (fixed already in official Exim Git repo)

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2016-11-24 "Heiko Schlittermann (HS12-RIPE)" <hs at schlittermann.de> wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
> Version: 4.84.2-2+deb8u1
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream patch

> Dear Maintainer,

> Current Exim versions have a memory leak when doing callouts via TLS
> connections. I can reproduce the problem and I've fixed it.

> The fix is already pushed to the upstream repository of Exim (as I'm
> one of the Exim developers).

> Commit ed62aae3051c9a713d35c8ae516fbd193d1401ba contains the fix.
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Hello Heiko,

thanks for the report with fix (in the branch).

Would you mind explaining why this is an important bug? Afaiu most exim
processes a short lived and I also would think that the respective
structure would not be huge. So at a glance I would have expected a
normal or even minor severity (... which would not be eligible for a
stable update.)

Thanks in advance for your patience, cu Andreas
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