Bug#520945: Iceweasel crashes when <input type="radio"> has name attribute

Tue Dec 22 22:53:42 UTC 2009

Hi,

Sorry for the late answer.

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:24:50PM +0200, Gianluca Bonetti wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.0.12-1
> Followup-For: Bug #520945
> 
> Hello
> 
> This short page is enough to crash Iceweasel on Alpha:
> 
> ... cut here ...
> <html>
> <body>
>        <form>
>                <input type="radio" name="radiobutton1">
>        </form>
> </body>
> </html>
> ... cut here ...
> 
> Expecially this crashes Iceweasel
> <input type="radio" name="radiobutton1">
> 
> And this doesn't crash it
> <input type="radio">
> 
> I have found the bug this way, so you can test again and reproduce.
> 
> 1) google.com works. It doesn't have radio buttons.
> 2) google.it (or .de, or any other google localization) crashes, and
> it has radio buttons (search in specific language, or any language)
> 3) strip down google.it/index.html page until it works, so I found that 
> was the radio button tag to crash it
> 4) test again: downloaded again google.it/index.html page, deleted all
> "name=meta" strings in the radio button tags, and it works.
> 
> Hope it helps in squashing the bug!

If an alpha porter want to tackle this bug, you are free to do so. I
won't be likely to spend time on it myself, as there are many various
other important bugs to fix in the current packages, and alpha not being
a target architecture for squeeze, I lack the incentive to prioritize
this issue in my TODO list.

Cheers,

Mike