diff -urNp inetutils/ping/ping.c inetutils-build/ping/ping.c
--- inetutils/ping/ping.c	2007-07-16 00:01:53.000000000 +0530
+++ inetutils-build/ping/ping.c	2007-07-22 07:34:12.000000000 +0530
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 {
   int index;
   int one = 1;
+  int status;
 
   if (getuid () == 0)
     is_root = true;
@@ -263,7 +264,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 
   init_data_buffer (patptr, pattern_len);
 
-  return (*(ping_type)) (argc, argv);
+  status = (*(ping_type)) (argc, argv);
+  free (ping);
+  free (data_buffer);
+  return status;
 }
 
 int (*decode_type (const char *arg)) (int argc, char **argv)
@@ -385,6 +389,10 @@ ping_run (PING * ping, int (*finish) ())
 	  gettimeofday (&last, NULL);
 	}
     }
+
+  free (ping->ping_buffer);
+  free (ping->ping_cktab);
+
   if (finish)
     return (*finish) ();
   return 0;
diff -urNp inetutils/ping/ping_echo.c inetutils-build/ping/ping_echo.c
--- inetutils/ping/ping_echo.c	2007-07-16 00:01:53.000000000 +0530
+++ inetutils-build/ping/ping_echo.c	2007-07-22 07:16:25.000000000 +0530
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ ping_echo (int argc, char **argv)
 #ifdef IP_OPTIONS
   char rspace[3 + 4 * NROUTES + 1];	/* record route space */
 #endif
+
+  int status;
   struct ping_stat ping_stat;
 
   if (options & OPT_FLOOD && options & OPT_INTERVAL)
@@ -110,7 +112,9 @@ ping_echo (int argc, char **argv)
 	  ping->ping_hostname,
 	  inet_ntoa (ping->ping_dest.sin_addr), data_length);
 
-  return ping_run (ping, echo_finish);
+  status = ping_run (ping, echo_finish);
+  free (ping->ping_hostname);
+  return status;
 }
 
 int
@@ -528,5 +532,5 @@ echo_finish ()
       printf ("round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = %.3f/%.3f/%.3f/%.3f ms\n",
 	      ping_stat->tmin, avg, ping_stat->tmax, nsqrt (vari, 0.0005));
     }
-  exit (ping->ping_num_recv == 0);
+  return (ping->ping_num_recv == 0);
 }