1398462 - Junk in "Web Content" process according to ps, e.g. Chinese logographs(?)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1375979

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Páll Haraldsson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
Build ID: 20170816210634

Steps to reproduce:

ps and grep for firefox process


Actual results:

$ ps -ef |grep 26443
qwerty   26443  1224 99 11:28 ?        00:09:58 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
qwerty   26595 26443 17 11:28 ?        00:01:39 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 4 -isForBrowser -intPrefs 5:50|6:-1|18:0|28:1000|33:20|34:10|43:128|44:10000|49:0|51:400|52:1|53:0|54:0|59:0|60:120|61:120|91:2|92:1|106:5000|117:0|119:0|130:10000|155:24|156:32768|158:0|159:0|167:5|171:1048576|172:100|173:5000|175:600|176:4|177:1|186:2|200:60000| -boolPrefs 1:0|2:0|4:0|26:1|27:1|30:0|35:1|36:0|37:0|38:0|41:1|42:1|45:0|46:0|47:0|48:0|50:0|55:1|56:1|57:0|58:1|62:1|63:1|64:0|65:1|66:1|67:0|68:1|71:0|72:0|75:1|76:1|80:1|81:1|82:1|83:0|85:0|86:0|87:1|88:0|93:1|94:0|100:0|105:0|108:1|109:0|111:1|112:1|114:1|118:0|120:0|122:0|124:1|125:1|131:0|132:0|133:1|135:0|146:0|153:0|154:0|157:1|160:0|162:1|164:1|165:0|170:0|174:1|179:0|180:0|181:0|182:1|183:0|184:0|185:1|188:1|192:0|193:0|194:1|195:1|196:0|197:1|198:1|199:1|201:0|202:0|204:0|212:1|213:1|214:0|215:0|216:0| -stringPrefs 3:7;release|134:3;1.0|151:332;  ¼½¾ǃː??։֊׃״؉؊٪۔܁܂܃܄ᅟᅠ᜵           ???‐’․‧??????? ‹›⁁⁄⁒ ⅓⅔⅕⅖⅗⅘⅙⅚?⅜⅝⅞⅟∕∶⎮╱⧶⧸⫻⫽⿰⿱⿲⿳⿴⿵⿶⿷⿸⿹⿺⿻　。〔〕〳゠ㅤ㈝㈞㎮㎯㏆㏟꞉︔︕︿﹝﹞?．／｡ﾠ???�|152:8;moderate| -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 26443 true tab



Expected results:

Just not sure this is supposed to happen. I only read English (and Icelandic) web sites (that I know of.. have lots of tabs and Firefox has crashed a bit recently).

Not sure if:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/client-bug-bounty/

applies, just wanted to let you know of the strange junk. Above is ps from running firefox (obviously) then killed "Web Content" and it seemingly reappeared with same string so possibly this (or not) this is as it should be:

$ kill 26595

$ ps -ef |grep 26443
qwerty   26443  1224 99 11:28 ?        00:11:00 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
qwerty   26595 26443 16 11:28 ?        00:01:45 [Web Content] <defunct>
qwerty   26802 24488  0 11:38 pts/18   00:00:00 grep --color=auto 26443

$ ps -ef |grep 26443
qwerty   26443  1224 68 11:28 ?        00:12:49 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
qwerty   26806 26443  6 11:39 ?        00:00:30 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 5 -isForBrowser -intPrefs 5:50|6:-1|18:0|28:1000|33:20|34:10|43:128|44:10000|49:0|51:400|52:1|53:0|54:0|59:0|60:120|61:120|91:2|92:1|106:5000|117:0|119:0|130:10000|155:24|156:32768|158:0|159:0|167:5|171:1048576|172:100|173:5000|175:600|176:4|177:1|186:2|200:60000| -boolPrefs 1:0|2:0|4:0|26:1|27:1|30:0|35:1|36:0|37:0|38:0|41:1|42:1|45:0|46:0|47:0|48:0|50:0|55:1|56:1|57:0|58:1|62:1|63:1|64:0|65:1|66:1|67:0|68:1|71:0|72:0|75:1|76:1|80:1|81:1|82:1|83:0|85:0|86:0|87:1|88:0|93:1|94:0|100:0|105:0|108:1|109:0|111:1|112:1|114:1|118:0|120:0|122:0|124:1|125:1|131:0|132:0|133:1|135:0|146:0|153:0|154:0|157:1|160:0|162:1|164:1|165:0|170:0|174:1|179:0|180:0|181:0|182:1|183:0|184:0|185:1|188:1|192:0|193:0|194:1|195:1|196:0|197:1|198:1|199:1|201:0|202:0|204:0|212:1|213:1|214:0|215:0|216:0| -stringPrefs 3:7;release|134:3;1.0|151:332;  ¼½¾ǃː??։֊׃״؉؊٪۔܁܂܃܄ᅟᅠ᜵           ???‐’․‧??????? ‹›⁁⁄⁒ ⅓⅔⅕⅖⅗⅘⅙⅚?⅜⅝⅞⅟∕∶⎮╱⧶⧸⫻⫽⿰⿱⿲⿳⿴⿵⿶⿷⿸⿹⿺⿻　。〔〕〳゠ㅤ㈝㈞㎮㎯㏆㏟꞉︔︕︿﹝﹞?．／｡ﾠ???�|152:8;moderate| -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 26443 true tab

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This is a known issue, and not a security risk. There's a better dupe than bug 1375979 but I can't find it at the moment, so this will have to do.