119247 - copy on select doesn't terminate string

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Rui M. Silva Seabra]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020109
BuildID:    20020109

When you select some text, in unix, text get's into the primary buffer.
Currently, pasting the contents of the primary buffer anywhere reveals that more
than what was selected got into the buffer. Lot's of weird characters.
I would suspect the some string is no longer null terminated... this can be a
serious security bug if selection uses some class used somewhere else where this
may cause a problem bigger than on selection.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. select an average sized portion of text (for instance, go to
http://www.mozilla.org and select the full text of the Status Update section).
2. go to someplace you can paste, and click on the middle mouse button

Actual Results:  The selected text is pasted, however, lot's of weird stuff is
also pasted.

Expected Results:  Pasting of _only_ the selected text

This has been happening in recent builds, but did not happen prior to some post
0.9.7 nightlies (I'm sorry, but I can't specify from which one onwards).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

worksforme, PC linux build 2002-01-07-06

Comment 2

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

Works for me too. build 2002041711.

Comment 3

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

and another WORKSFORME...

Reporter (Rui M. Silva Seabra) can you check to see whether this bug is still
present in a recent build (Moz1-RC1 or a new nightly build). If this bug does
not occur please can you resolve it worksforme. Thanks.

Comment 4

[Rui M. Silva Seabra]

Tested with build 2002042007 and WFM.
I've been using galeon recently (which uses gecko underneath) since mozilla's
0.9.8 and currently 0.9.9 (which also do not reflect this bug -- which I didn't
even remember having reported it anymore) so I can consider this bug as WFM.

Thank you lizzards!