Out of memory problem with pinentry-qt

[Ingo Klöcker]

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Hi,

pinentry-qt has a serious "Out of memory" problem. To reproduce run=20
pinentry-qt, enter "getpin" and then move the mouse a few times over=20
the buttons (I'm using Keramik style, maybe that's important). You will=20
get the following output:
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> pinentry-qt
Warning: using insecure memory!
[0x4103102c] -> OK Your orders please
OK Your orders please
getpin
[0x4103102c] <- getpin
Out of memory!
Aborted
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A possible reason could be a memory leak in the Keramik style. My=20
radical solution to make pinentry-qt stable was to #ifdef 0 the whole=20
code of pinentry/qt/cppmemory.cpp and the two occurrences of is_secure=20
in pinentry/qt/main.cpp. Of course now pinentry-qt doesn't use secure=20
memory anymore but as pinentry-qt wasn't suid root the memory was=20
anyway not secure. Or was it?

Regards,
Ingo


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