240409 - crash when selecting very long string [@ XftDrawGlyphFontSpec ]

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Aravind SV]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:0.9.5; MultiZilla v1.4.0.4A) Gecko/20040104
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:0.9.5; MultiZilla v1.4.0.4A) Gecko/20040104

In the page mentioned
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis),
there are a few huge strings. Selecting the really big ones causes both Mozilla
and Firefox to crash.

Sorry I don't have a newer build and I cannot download it too as I have a VERY
slow connection.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to    
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

2. Click on "5. Technical terms" in the Table of contents, or scroll down to the 
   "Technical terms" section.

3. Select the second of the big strings, ie, methionylglutaminylarginy...
Actual Results:  
The browser crashes.

Expected Results:  
Er, it should have selected the string.

On running it under gdb, it says:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 26792)]
0x4086a188 in XftDrawGlyphFontSpec () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2

I'm using Gentoo with xfree86 4.3.0. Mozilla compiled with gcc version 3.2.3
with build options (among others) --enable-xft --disable-freetype2.

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you try a later build than 20040104 ? This should be fixed as per bug 213734.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 2

[Aravind SV]

(In reply to comment #1)
> can you try a later build than 20040104 ? This should be fixed as per bug 213734.
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

I will. Thank you.

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

do you still crash with Mozilla 1.7rc2 ?

Comment 4

[Aravind SV]

(In reply to comment #3)
> do you still crash with Mozilla 1.7rc2 ?

Well, I have a new Firefox. It's version is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040501 Firefox/0.8

It's fine. It does not crash. So, I think it's fixed.

By the way, the Wikipedia URL I gave has been changed. It's now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English#Technical_terms

Thanks for the concern,
Arvind

Comment 5

[Olivier Cahagne]

thanks, marking WFM.