From 13f842a116c2c76d29e8155bb167f5cdd98983f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kim Kulling <kimkulling@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 11:18:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix leak in loader

 Closes https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/5717
---
 code/AssetLib/Ply/PlyLoader.cpp | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/code/AssetLib/Ply/PlyLoader.cpp b/code/AssetLib/Ply/PlyLoader.cpp
index 0c2463f24..160a03b31 100644
--- a/code/AssetLib/Ply/PlyLoader.cpp
+++ b/code/AssetLib/Ply/PlyLoader.cpp
@@ -242,6 +242,9 @@ void PLYImporter::InternReadFile(const std::string &pFile, aiScene *pScene, IOSy
     pScene->mNumMeshes = 1;
     pScene->mMeshes = new aiMesh *[pScene->mNumMeshes];
     pScene->mMeshes[0] = mGeneratedMesh;
+
+    delete mGeneratedMesh;
+    
     mGeneratedMesh = nullptr;
 
     // generate a simple node structure