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Bug 153448 - <media-sound/audacious-1.2.1: Local DoS through memory exhaustion
Summary: <media-sound/audacious-1.2.1: Local DoS through memory exhaustion
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
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Reported: 2006-10-30 08:01 UTC by Tony Vroon (RETIRED)
Modified: 2006-12-27 01:19 UTC (History)
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Description Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-30 08:01:07 UTC 
A rather severe memleak was identified in audacious 1.2.0 and 1.1.2 that only appears to trigger on KDE and other non-Gnome environments. With every VT/background change, the complete background image is leaked. Over time, this can exhaust the memory on the machine.
Previous XMMS users argue that the alternative player should be in a usable state, and I can't help but agree. Could you please consider marking stable:
media-sound/audacious-1.2.1
media-plugins/audacious-plugins-1.2.2-r1
Comment 1 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-30 08:12:48 UTC 
Discussed this with the PPC security contact (Tobias Scherbaum a.k.a. dertobi123), this is a local DoS and should be assigned to security. Doing so.
Comment 2 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-30 12:44:44 UTC 
Too many disagreements on this one. I'll hold off.