[João Valverde <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/21/2017 09:09 PM, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> Hi list.
>
> I got a crash in epan/geoip_db.c and MSVCRT:free().
> Due to the use of g_free() at line 379:
>
>             case GEOIP_ASNUM_EDITION:
>                 raw_val = GeoIP_name_by_ipnum(gi, addr);
>                 if (raw_val) {
>                     ret = db_val_to_utf_8(raw_val, gi);
>                     g_free((char*)raw_val);  << line 379
>                 }
>
> In my case, the 'raw_val' was not allocated by Glib, but
> by MSVC's CRT directly. So shouldn't these 'g_free()' really be
> 'free()'? Or is the "official" GeoIP-1.6.6-win32ws.zip built using
> Glib now?
>
> This works for me:
>
> --- a/epan/geoip_db.c 2017-02-21 20:23:21
> +++ b/epan/geoip_db.c 2017-02-21 21:58:27
> @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@
>                  raw_val = GeoIP_name_by_ipnum(gi, addr);
>                  if (raw_val) {
>                      ret = db_val_to_utf_8(raw_val, gi);
> -                    g_free((char*)raw_val);
> +                    free((char*)raw_val);
>                  }
>                  break;
>
> @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@
>                  raw_val = GeoIP_name_by_ipnum_v6(gi, gaddr);
>                  if (raw_val) {
>                      ret = db_val_to_utf_8(raw_val, gi);
> -                    g_free((char*)raw_val);
> +                    free((char*)raw_val);
>                  }
>                  break;

Fixes 850393b57bdd7011780f4cf897d4a2467f58a673. Please push to Gerrit. 
Bonus points for fixing the cast too.