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and subject line Bug#1016153: fixed in watchdog 5.16-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #1016153,
regarding watchdog: upstream Git fixes a memory leak in realloc()
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Package: watchdog
Version: 5.16-1+b1
Severity: normal
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Since 5.16 was released, upstream Git has had two new commits.
Of these two, one fixes a memory leak in realloc():
Coverity report shows a memory leak in watchdog-5.16/src/run-as-child.c:102
with `realloc()` call. Issue is that realloc may return `NULL` when there
is an error causing `opt` to be a null pointer and losing the pointer to
the memory that was allocated by `strdup()` or reallocated by `realloc()`.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. watchdog needs to be run with the verbose flag
2. watchdog needs to receive test/repair arguments of sufficient length to
cause a ENOMEM or another error that may be triggered by realloc
Patch courtesy of Josef Ridky, RedHat
<https://sourceforge.net/p/watchdog/code/ci/20011eaf7c67345c11db197b89a6616436b95df7/>
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages watchdog depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.77
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii udev 247.3-7
watchdog recommends no packages.
watchdog suggests no packages.
- -- debconf information:
watchdog/run_keepalive: true
watchdog/restart: false
watchdog/run: true
watchdog/module: none
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Source: watchdog
Source-Version: 5.16-2
Done: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
watchdog, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Tille <[email protected]> (supplier of updated watchdog package)
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:06:27 +0200
Source: watchdog
Architecture: source
Version: 5.16-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Commons <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
Closes: 1016153 1089913 1117711 1124478
Changes:
watchdog (5.16-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload.
.
[ Andreas Tille ]
* Maintain in Debian Commons team with maintainer permission
Closes: #1089913
* Secure URI in Homepage
* d/watch: version=5
* d/copyright: DEP5
* d/rules: Short dh
* Drop depends from obsolete package lsb-base
* Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13.
* Fix day-of-week for changelog entry 5.6-1.
* Remove redundant Priority: optional from source stanza.
* Add missing colon in closes line.
* Drop "Rules-Requires-Root: no" which is default now
* No need for versioned Depends since all are at least in o-o-stable
* Fix memory leak in realloc()
Closes: #1016153
* Add debian/upstream/metadata
* Standards-Version: 4.7.4
.
[ Carles Pina i Estany ]
* Add debconf template translation for Catalan
Closes: #1117711
.
[ Yangfl ]
* Add Chinese debconf templates translations
Closes: #1124478
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