Bug#760207: xterm: segmentation fault when selecting a non-existing font
Package: xterm
Version: 310-1
Severity: important
To reproduce the crash:
1. Run: xterm -xrm '*allowFontOps: true'
2. Select the word "fixed" (PRIMARY selection).
3. Ctrl-right click, and choose "Selection".
4. Select the word "foo" (PRIMARY selection).
5. Ctrl-right click, and choose "Selection".
Then thousands of
/usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font 'foo'
error messages are sent to stderr and xterm terminates with a
segmentation fault.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-10
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.1
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140712-2
ii libutempter0 1.1.5-4
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.12-2
ii libxft2 2.3.2-1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-1
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.11-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1
ii xbitmaps 1.1.1-2
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.7+2
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn xfonts-cyrillic <none>
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