On 2016-11-24 "Heiko Schlittermann (HS12-RIPE)" <h...@schlittermann.de> wrote: > Package: exim4-daemon-heavy > Version: 4.84.2-2+deb8u1 > Severity: important > Tags: upstream patch
> Dear Maintainer, > Current Exim versions have a memory leak when doing callouts via TLS > connections. I can reproduce the problem and I've fixed it. > The fix is already pushed to the upstream repository of Exim (as I'm > one of the Exim developers). > Commit ed62aae3051c9a713d35c8ae516fbd193d1401ba contains the fix. [...] Hello Heiko, thanks for the report with fix (in the branch). Would you mind explaining why this is an important bug? Afaiu most exim processes a short lived and I also would think that the respective structure would not be huge. So at a glance I would have expected a normal or even minor severity (... which would not be eligible for a stable update.) Thanks in advance for your patience, cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'