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tool_urlglob: fix memory-leak on glob range overflow - #20956

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Follow-up to 5f273fd

Pointed out by Codex Security

Follow-up to 5f273fd

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Pull request overview

Fixes a memory leak in the URL globbing parser when a {...} set grows beyond the allowed size (“range overflow”), ensuring allocated set elements are freed on error.

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  • Replace a direct early return on set-size overflow in glob_set() with setting an error code and jumping to the shared cleanup path (goto error).

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Reminds me of gcc analyzer finding a leak here in #20921:

src/tool_urlglob.c:48:17: warning: leak of 'malloc(8)' [CWE-401] [-Wanalyzer-malloc-leak]

will be interesting to retest after merging, and perhaps unsilence if fixed.

vszakats pushed a commit to vszakats/curl that referenced this pull request Mar 17, 2026
Follow-up to 5f273fd

Pointed out by Codex Security

Closes curl#20956
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Reminds me of gcc analyzer finding a leak here in #20921:

src/tool_urlglob.c:48:17: warning: leak of 'malloc(8)' [CWE-401] [-Wanalyzer-malloc-leak]

will be interesting to retest after merging, and perhaps unsilence if fixed.

It's a different leak (if real.)

outcast36 pushed a commit to greearb/curl that referenced this pull request Jun 3, 2026
Follow-up to 5f273fd

Pointed out by Codex Security

Closes curl#20956
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