Re: re ntlm memory race

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 03:18:49 +0100

Never mind. Found the remove I didn't find before. Looks OK even if it
is a bit confusing with all the different levels of authentication
caches..

/Henrik

Robert Collins wrote:
>
> Hi Henrik,
> my home ISP's SMTP server is down at the moment (and they use SMTP
> interception !grrr. Anyway This is the only way I can respond till they fix
> it. Please reply direct to this mail account. Also please don't forward this
> to the list (I don't want this accounts email address visible for spambots
> to pick up)
>
> what line number is the hash you are referring to occuring on?
> ===
>
> I stumbled across a hash in auth/ntlm/auth_ntlm.c which looks rather
> dangerous. There you build a indirect hash from ntlmhash to auth_user,
> but there is no deletes from the hash table.
>
> Isn't those auth_user structures garbage collected in authenticate.c? Or
> is this another set of auth_user structures which never gets
> deallocated?
>
> (why I was looking is because I am rewriting hash.c sligthly in
> compactsentry to save a pointer to the key)
>
> /Henrik
>
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Received on Fri Jan 12 2001 - 19:19:41 MST

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