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Mageia 8 Advisory MGASA-2021-0569 Critical Memory Leak in Watchdog

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2021
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The recent updates to watchdog packages rectify a memory leak problem that occurs specifically in verbose mode. For further information, refer to advisory MGASA-2021-0569.
Updated watchdog packages fixes an issue with a memory leak when verbose mode is on

Summary

Updated watchdog packages fixes an issue with a memory leak when verbose mode is on. References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29576

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29576

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/J5W2UNUV6UGNCHVRZWELPPPBJ444STNM/

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical memory leak Mageia watchdog

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/watchdog-5.16-1.mga8

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Publication date: 19 Dec 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0569.html
Type: security

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