Memory Leak

[QiAnXinCodeSafe]

Memory is allocated

open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools/lib/rpcChannel/simpleSocket.c

Line 533 in 9369f1d

newBuf = malloc(len);

Potential leak of memory pointed to by 'newBuf '

open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools/lib/rpcChannel/simpleSocket.c

Line 552 in 9369f1d

return TRUE;

[jonathanvmw]

Thanks for reporting this issue. Can you provide any additional background? For example, was this issue reported by a code analysis tool and if so which one? Was there any additional analysis provided?

At the moment this looks like a false positive. If the code reaches line 552, it implies the call to DataMap_SetString at line 539 was successful; this would attach to map the storage pointed to by newBuf. The call to DataMap_Destroy at line 551 would then free that storage as part of freeing map.

[QiAnXinCodeSafe]

Hi，Thank you for your quickly feedback, This issue found by our own symbolic-execution-based static analyzer.