281697 - Extremely long url crashes not only in firefox, but complete xorg-x11

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Marco Springer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When entering an extremely long link firefox crashes up and not only that but
also  xorg-x11 crashes, the system itself does not hang.
Tried to reproduce on a windows xp machine and nothing happens, seems only to
happen on the linux machine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a very very very long url in the adress bar, starting with
http://[valid adres]/[very very long url]
Actual Results:  
Screen scrambled just like a real good crash and the computer responded to
nothing from the keyboard/mouse.
Logged in remotely with ssh and killed xorg-x11 and restarted it, firefox works
fine to except on the extremely long url.

Expected Results:  
Popup an information window that the filled in URL could not be found or perhaps
is (way) too long.

Running the normal install from the website, not compiled from source.
The url i was testing it on was located on an linux machine with apache-2.0.53
No themes installed, extension for download statusbar installed.
Computer config:
athlon-xp machine running gentoo linux 2004.3
using kernel 2.6.10
using nvidia drivers for g-force ti4200 in dual display mode
using xorg-x11 6.8.0

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[matthias]

I can confirm this bug. I'm running SeaMonkey 1.0.3 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060902 SeaMonkey/1.0.3.

Reproducable: Most times, but sometimes I just displays me an error message from dante.

Actually my X-server restarts automatically, apart from that I have the same symptons.

Kernel: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4
Xorg: 7.0-r1
Nvidia: 1.0.8762-r1