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Memory Leak in iperf_api.c
Location: iperf_api.c:1491
Description: Memory allocated for xbind_entry structure is not freed when strdup() fails
Code Pattern:
xbe = malloc(sizeof(struct xbind_entry));
if (!xbe) return -1; // OK
xbe->name = strdup(optarg);
if (!xbe->name) {
// BUG: xbe not freed
return -1; // MEMORY LEAK
}
The only way to "exploit" this would be:
# Repeatedly call iperf3 with bind options under memory pressure
# This would slowly leak small amounts of memory per failed call
while true; do
iperf3 -c 127.0.0.1 --bind <some_address> &
# Under extreme memory pressure, strdup() might fail
# causing the small memory leak
done