220288 - News crashes when a message is selected from a newsgroup with character '&' (ampersand) in name

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Filip Miletic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

An experimental news server at news://news.elitesecurity.org has a conference
named: elitesecurity.programiranje.python-&-zope. Selecting any message from it
causes News to crash. I suspect that it might be because of the ampersand in the
name.

Last few lines of the reproduction, running as: mozilla --debug

[New Thread 13326 (LWP 754)]
[New Thread 14351 (LWP 755)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 673)]
0x41407e80 in NSGetModule () from /usr/local/mozilla/components/libmsgnews.so
(gdb)



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to news://news.elitesecurity.org:119
2. Subscribe to elitesecurity.programiranje.python-&-zope
3. Select any message for viewing.

Actual Results:  
All Mozilla windows close. If run from a terminal, user sees no SIGSEGV message.
If run in --debug mode, user sees the message about the SIGSEGV, as quoted above.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should not crash.

Theme is 'old style' Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

WFM using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20030925

Comment 2

[Olivier Cahagne]

do you still crash using 1.6b ?

Comment 3

[Adam Hauner]

No response from reporter for several months, marking WFM.
Reporter: Please reopen this bug, if you could reproduce with recent build and
could provide Talkback incident ID.