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

Sat Aug 20 08:36:55 UTC 2011

On 2011-08-20 09:12:40 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 10:02:47AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2011-08-12 16:47:06 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > Can you try rebuilding iceweasel from source for amd64 and use that
> > > rebuilt version?
> > 
> > I've rebuilt iceweasel from source (unstable, 5.0-6). It doesn't crash.
> > And if I reinstall the iceweasel package from Debian, it crashes again.
> 
> How does 6.0-1 perform?

It no longer crashes.

But is there a way to know whether the bug was in the 5.0-6 package
only (e.g. due to a compiler bug) or it is still present but visible
only under particular conditions?

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