271777 - Crash on subject with trailing \x8F (del)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Andrzej Filip]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913

News posting with 3 trailing \x8F (del; ^?) caused mozilla and X crash.
Messages in the group were listed properly, crash occurered during attempt to
display body the specific message.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.subscribe news.comp.mail.sendmail
2.try to view thread started by message below
Subject: limit received header XXX
Message-ID: <nxNod.19679$[e-mail]>
3.

Actual Results:  
X server crash

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

is there a public newsgroup with a message like this, or one I can access?

Comment 2

[Andrzej Filip]

I have mentioned thread causing the crash in my original submission (Steps to
Reproduce:)

Post starting the thread:
  newsgroup: comp.mail.sendmail
  Subject: limit received header XXX
  Message-ID: <nxNod.19679$[e-mail]>

XXX marks place of the 3 dels
Google link:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=nxNod.19679%24lN.6747%40amsnews05.chello.com&output=gplain

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

sorry, so you did...

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

I had no problem displaying this message with thunderbird...

Comment 5

[Andrzej Filip]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I had no problem displaying this message with thunderbird...

It may be caused by "external" software (e.g. X server).
I use:
* Fedora Core 2 [it was fully updated yesterday (2004-11-25)]
* kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2
* xorg-x11-6.7.0-10

My temporary fix makes my personal news server convert all chars in headers
except \t \r \n \x020-\x8E into X. It is a little bit draconian but cyrus-imap
seems to apply similar strategy.

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

yeah, I'm betting this is X/linux specific. I tried debug and release seamonkey
builds, no problems...

Comment 7

[Josh Bressers]

What distribution is being used here?  This sounds more like a font issue than a
Mozilla issue.  If the X server is crashing I'm inclined to think you'ure using
a bad/broken font.

Comment 8

[Andrew Schultz]

are you using a gtk1 or gtk2 build?

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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