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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: Tar component in busybox version 1.34.1 has a memory leak bug when trying to unpack a tar file.
From:       "Laurent Bercot" <ska-dietlibc () skarnet ! org>
Date:       2021-12-01 20:58:27
Message-ID: em7d11ef06-647a-4a2b-9bf6-eed9ea842f12 () elzian
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>A stock Linux system will happily slaughter your system services with the OOM killer before malloc ever returns NULL.

  Only if overcommit is activated, which is not a good idea in embedded
systems where busybox is likely to be used.
  Also, resource limits are a thing, and proper administration practices
make use of them.

  malloc returning NULL is not so far out as people think it is, far
from it. It *does* happen.

--
  Laurent

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