On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:22:42AM -0000, Paul Keogh wrote:
> I've been doing some memory leak checking on an OpenSSL app and discovered
> that a memory leak occurs in SSL_CTX_new(). Stack trace is below.
> The SSL_get_ex_data_X509_STORE_CTX_idx() function is used to check for an
> error but internally allocates resources which SSL_CTX_free() does not
> free up.
True, this however is not a true memory leak because the reference to
the memory blocks is kept in a global variable. This is memory
used for assigning at run-time an index value used for certain
internal structures.
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