** Description changed: + [Impact] + + * Upstream identified memory leaks in the VIX plugin. + + * Patches fixing the mem leaks are provdied by upstream and + requested to be added to the Ubuntu package of open-vm-tools. + + [Test Case] + + * TL;DR: use the VIX plugin which might be easier said than done :-/ + And check memory consumption over time. + I have asked the reporter if he could add some real examples/commands. + + [Regression Potential] + + * The changes really are only about properly freeing stuff. + If anything I'd expect that to be done overzealous and due to that a + use-after free issue. + Fortunately (but also the reason this is "only" medium) this only + would affect users of the VIX plugin [1] which isn't affecting all + users of the tools (yet TBH I don't know a percentage). + Coming from upstream and beeing not too huge I feel rather safe on + these patches. + + [1]: https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/ + + [Other Info] + + * n/a + + --- original report --- + We have discovered a few memory leaks in open-vm-tools, related to the vix plugin. We have created a branch for 10.3.10 on github that includes fixes: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/stable-10.3.10-vix- memory-leaks Also reported at Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=941955
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