severity 173071 important retitle 173071 xterm: crashes when pasting text with NULL character in it tag 173071 + moreinfo upstream unreproducible thanks On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 09:33:07PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 4.2.1-4 > > xterm crashes when you try to paste into it a string which contains a > NULL octet at its end. This is not a normal situation and it wouldn't > be reproduced if not for a KHTML bug (a bug would be filled against > KHTML as well). > > This bug can be reproduced with the Konqueror web browser, when you > right-click a link and select 'Copy Link Location'. > At this point, clicking the middle button in xterm (to paste the > selection) would cause it to crash. I was unable to reproduce this problem on my machine, using the procedure you described. How does xterm crash? Does it segfault? Did you get a core dump? -- G. Branden Robinson | The Rehnquist Court has never Debian GNU/Linux | encountered a criminal statute it branden@debian.org | did not like. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- John Dean
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