[sword-devel] Minor memory leak in diatheke

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Hi Jaak,

Thank you. diatheke was initially written and owned by Chris Little, but 
he's been gone now for a while.  Happy for a new owner if you'd like to 
take it up.


On 10/19/20 1:24 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
> Hello!
>
> There is a minor memory leak in utilities/diatheke/diatheke.cpp 
> related to the following allocation when parsing the query key (-k 
> option):
>
>                 ref = new char[key.length() + 1];
>                 strcpy (ref, key.c_str());
>                 if (strlen(ref))
>                     runquery |= RQ_REF;
>             }
>
> The memory allocated is not freed when returning from the function nor 
> before overwriting its address in the ref variable in cases the user 
> passes multiple -k options for some strange reason.
>
> Best regards,
> J
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