[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4193] Minor Issue with X509_STORE_CTX_init and it's callers.

[Srinivas Koripella via RT]

Hello all,
There is a minor issue with X509_STORE_CTX_init and its usage. Most of the callers of X509_STORE_CTX_init use a stack variable and pass its address as the ctx argument to this function.  However, X509_STORE_CTX_init in case of an error in the call to CRYPTO_new_ex_data does an OPENSSL_free on this stack variable. This in theory should be ok as the underlying  free implementation should probably be a  no-op as this address is from the stack.

However, on systems that does strict checks on allocated memory heap this can be a problem.  One potential fix could be to remove the OPENSSL_free and let the caller take responsibility for his memory.

Thanks.
Srinivas


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