1113135 - [Ubuntu Firefox] Crash Bug in 34.0 "MessageChannel.cpp, line 1618" (a long domain name in /etc/hosts?)

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Core :: IPC, defect, P3)

Description

[Joshua Rogers]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Build ID: 20141127111021

Steps to reproduce:

Browsed the web


Actual results:

Browser crashed


Expected results:

Not crashed.


I don't know exactly waht the problem is, but I'm running firefox 34.0 from the Ubuntu repo's.

"[28120] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/buildd/firefox-34.0+build2/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1618
[28120] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/buildd/firefox-34.0+build2/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1618"
is what happens when it crashes.

The things open when it crashes (randomly):
Facebook, Youtube.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1072316 seems related, but it says 34.0 is not affected.

More updates to come(Want to submit ASAP before next crash)

Comment 1

[Joshua Rogers]

OK, I think I've identified the problem.

If a very large string is in /etc/hosts, it will cause firefox to crash on a certain function.

I ran
 perl -e 'print "127.0.0.1 ayylmao","x"x120000,".mit.edu"' >> /etc/hosts

restarted firefox, and started browsing, and it crashed.


Thanks

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

Can you try with a build from Mozilla?  You can use a separate profile for it: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Profiles

Comment 3

[Timea Cernea [:tbabos][inactive]]

Closing this as resolved:inactive, this issue was not confirmed nor further info provided in 7 years.