Bug#608358: iceweasel crashes with segmentation fault loading http://www.rideuta.com

Cobra mach1 at xmission.com
Fri Dec 31 21:39:55 UTC 2010


I tried the URL http://www.rideuta.com today and the page now loads just
fine. I suspect they changed the page recently. I then tried the URL
http://www.slashdot.org and it still fails. Examining the backtrace
submitted earlier, I inferred that the problem was related to the
handling of radio buttons. I examined the HTML for the Slashdot page and
isolated the poll form which contains radio buttons. I simplified it
substatially as follows:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html><head>

<form>
<fieldset>
<legend>Poll</legend>
<b>Percentage of New Years resolutions I have kept:</b>
<br><input name="aid" value="1" type="radio">0%-20%
<br><input name="aid" value="2" type="radio">20%-40%
<br><input name="aid" value="3" type="radio">40%-60%
<br><input name="aid" value="4" type="radio">60%-80%
<br><input name="aid" value="5" type="radio">80%-100%
<br><input value="Vote" type="submit">
</fieldset>
</form>
</body></html>

I viewed this file on a really old version of Firefox (Version 1.5)
running on a CentOS 4.3 Alpha distribution and it displays just fine and
functions as one would expect. I then tried it on the Debian 5.0.7
distribution and it fails. The backtrace resembles the one I submitted
for http://www.rideuta.com from stack frame 0 to stack frame 19. I don't
have the source code so I can't easily investigate further.

Wayne







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