Bug#811106: browser-plugin-gnash: crashes with general protection error and fails to work

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: browser-plugin-gnash
Version: 0.8.11~git20160109-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hello!

I experienced a grave regression after upgrading browser-plugin-gnash:

  [UPGRADE] browser-plugin-gnash:amd64 0.8.11~git20150419-3+b3 -> 0.8.11~git20160109-1
  [UPGRADE] gnash:amd64 0.8.11~git20150419-3+b3 -> 0.8.11~git20160109-1
  [UPGRADE] gnash-common:amd64 0.8.11~git20150419-3+b3 -> 0.8.11~git20160109-1

and restarting iceweasel.
Attempting to view any YouTube video results in a gnash crash with
errors such as:

  traps: plugin-containe[5604] general protection ip:7f79bfddc166 sp:7ffc805894f0 error:0 in libxul.so[7f79beda6000+39ec000]

in /var/log/kern.log

Downgrading the three packages to their previously installed versions
solves the issue and everything works again as before.

Please investigate and fix this bug and/or forward my bug report upstream.

Please do *not* downgrade the severity of this bug report, so that
users will be warned against performing the upgrade (especially if
they use apt-listbugs).

Thanks for your time!
Bye.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages browser-plugin-gnash depends on:
ii  gnash                     0.8.11~git20160109-1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-4.1
ii  libc6                     2.21-6
ii  libgcc1                   1:5.3.1-5
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.46.2-3
ii  libstdc++6                5.3.1-5

browser-plugin-gnash recommends no packages.

Versions of packages browser-plugin-gnash suggests:
pn  browser-plugin-lightspark  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gnashpluginrc changed:
set startStopped on


-- no debconf information