[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#922130: network-manager: Memory leak in Network manager. Fixed on 1.6 but not included in stretch

[Julien Beraud]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.14.4-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

A memory leak signaled by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1461643
and fixed by patches in NetworkManager is not fixed on the current version used
on Debian Stretch : 1.6.2-3+debu2.
The fix on 1.6 branch can be found here
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/44cbd3b036411c8b49bc2d34d4602fdc47d4921a

It's referencing the commits on other branches.

Regards,
Julien



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (150, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.118
ii  dbus                   1.12.12-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.56+nmu1
ii  libaudit1              1:2.8.4-2
ii  libbluetooth3          5.50-1
ii  libc6                  2.28-6
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.63.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.58.3-1
ii  libgnutls30            3.6.6-2
ii  libjansson4            2.12-1
ii  libmm-glib0            1.8.2-1
ii  libndp0                1.6-1+b1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.20-8
ii  libnm0                 1.14.4-4
ii  libpam-systemd         240-5
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-25
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-25
ii  libpsl5                0.20.2-2
ii  libreadline7           7.0-5
ii  libselinux1            2.8-1+b1
ii  libsystemd0            240-5
ii  libteamdctl0           1.28-1
ii  libudev1               240-5
ii  libuuid1               2.33.1-0.1
ii  lsb-base               10.2018112800
ii  policykit-1            0.105-25
ii  udev                   240-5
ii  wpasupplicant          2:2.6-21

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda                         3.18-1
ii  dnsmasq-base [dnsmasq-base]  2.80-1
ii  iptables                     1.8.2-3
ii  isc-dhcp-client              4.4.1-2
ii  modemmanager                 1.8.2-1
ii  ppp                          2.4.7-2+4

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  libteam-utils  <none>

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