reassign 250655 libx11-6 retitle 250655 libx11-6: SEGV in _XTextPropertyToTextList() causes apps to crash # This bug potentially affects many, many X clients. I also think it's a # regression from woody. severity 250655 serious tag 250655 - help On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 02:07:38PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 11:29:11PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 06:17:50PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > As far as I can determine, the bug is in the X libraries. Running against > > > the XFree86 4.3.0 build tree, I can reproduce the bug. Running against > > > XFree86 4.4.0 I cannot reproduce the bug. This is independent of the > > > version of xterm, and since it appears to have been fixed in the later > > > X libraries indicates to me that it should be reassigned to libxt6. > > > > Are you reasonably confident that it's Xt that has been fixed upstream > > or is that just a guess? I.e., could it be Xlib insteaad? Which way > > would you bet? > > I narrowed it down by test-builds to the end of May 2003. There's a > changelog entry which at that point stood out, and applying the fix to > my build tree seems to fix the bug we're discussing. Here's the URL: > > http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315 > > (it's a file in Xlib) Thanks, Thomas! Reassigning and updating this bug accordingly. Bug submitters: assuming our diagnosis is correct, you can expect this bug to be fixed in the next Debian package release of XFree86. -- G. Branden Robinson | It is the responsibility of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectuals to tell the truth and branden@debian.org | expose lies. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Noam Chomsky
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