From ed70129e15ea028469145111044a4349960a4e6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: neonene <53406459+neonene@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 21:33:43 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-37702: Fix SSL's certificate-store leak on Windows (GH-15632) ssl_collect_certificates function in _ssl.c has a memory leak. Calling CertOpenStore() and CertAddStoreToCollection(), a store's refcnt gets incremented by 2. But CertCloseStore() is called only once and the refcnt leaves 1. --- .../next/Windows/2019-07-29-16-49-31.bpo-37702.Lj2f5e.rst | 2 ++ Modules/_ssl.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-07-29-16-49-31.bpo-37702.Lj2f5e.rst diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-07-29-16-49-31.bpo-37702.Lj2f5e.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-07-29-16-49-31.bpo-37702.Lj2f5e.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..67d53d4c46 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-07-29-16-49-31.bpo-37702.Lj2f5e.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Fix memory leak on Windows in creating an SSLContext object or +running urllib.request.urlopen('https://...'). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Modules/_ssl.c b/Modules/_ssl.c index 3d63612168..d94efa98e9 100644 --- a/Modules/_ssl.c +++ b/Modules/_ssl.c @@ -5581,6 +5581,7 @@ ssl_collect_certificates(const char *store_name) if (result) { ++storesAdded; } + CertCloseStore(hSystemStore, 0); /* flag must be 0 */ } } if (storesAdded == 0) { -- 2.40.0