Bug#865538: iceweasel: Heap allocator memory leak

[Jeremiah]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 52.2.0esr-1~deb9u1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
Adding the following line to /etc/security/limits.conf:
* soft as 2400000
* hard as 3600000

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
Raing the limits does allow the problem to fester longer but smaller values can cause Firefox to fail to even initialize

   * What was the outcome of this action?
This bug report

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
That the software doesn't consume 4GB of Memory to display a 1MB image

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  firefox-esr  52.2.0esr-1~deb9u1

iceweasel recommends no packages.

iceweasel suggests no packages.

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