GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 794117
Memory leak in unlikely path
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:22:03 UTC
In 'xmlregexp.c' at line 545 a condition is evaluated to handle the error in the case of failed allocation of "transitions". However, the statements in the "if" that handles the error do not free each element in the "stringMap" array as the others similar "if" are doing e.g lines 520, 531, 603. If the condition at line 545 becomes true then the elements in "stringMap" wouldn't get freed and that would result in a memory leak. Unlikely, but possible.
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