Bug#637167: iceweasel: reproducible crash (segmentation fault) in libhunspell when typing a comment on Facebook

[Mike Hommey]

reassign 637167 libhunspell-1.2-0
thanks

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 04:30:46AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 5.0-6
> Severity: important
> 
> While typing a comment in Facebook, iceweasel crashed. I tried several
> times, and this crash was always reproducible, but not always at the
> same time. Then I tried with upstream's Firefox 5.0.1, and I could
> post my comment without any problem.
> 
> Perhaps Iceweasel should use the same spell checker as upstream?
> 
> Here's gdb information:
> 
> Core was generated by `/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0x00007f9618652eeb in raise (sig=<value optimized out>)
>     at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pt-raise.c:41
> 41      ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pt-raise.c: No such file or directory.
>         in ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pt-raise.c
> (gdb) bt full
> #0  0x00007f9618652eeb in raise (sig=<value optimized out>)
>     at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pt-raise.c:41
> No locals.
> #1  0x00007f9615d20078 in nsProfileLock::FatalSignalHandler (signo=11, 
>     info=0x7fffe3e448f0, context=<value optimized out>)
>     at nsProfileLock.cpp:216
>         unblock_sigs = {__val = {1024, 0 <repeats 15 times>}}
>         oldact = <value optimized out>
> #2  <signal handler called>
> No symbol table info available.
> #3  0x00007f961358bbf3 in AffixMgr::suffix_check(char const*, int, int, PfxEntry*, char**, int, int*, unsigned short, unsigned short, char) ()
>    from /usr/lib/libhunspell-1.2.so.0
> No symbol table info available.

The crash happens in libhunspell. You should try to downgrade it.

Mike