350270 - Font that crash Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Massimiliano Vessi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060412 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060412 Firefox/1.5

A type of font prevent firefox to start.  (Cyberbit.ttf)
If I put that font in "/usr/X11R6/lib/font/TTF" firefox can't start!!!
It's a UTF-8 font, with quite all lenguage font, for me it's precious.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put Cyberbit.ttf font in Linux font folder
2. Start linux
3. 

Actual Results:  
Illegal Operation

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Could you give the contents of about:buildconfig in the build you're using?

Comment 2

[Massimiliano Vessi]

You'll find Cyberbit.ttf (compressed) also here:
http://maxint.dynalias.org/~max/Cyberbit.ttf.bz2

I use "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060412 Firefox/1.5"

Comment 3

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

On my trunk x86-64 build, I have Cyberbit installed in ~/.fonts, and it seems to work great. Do you have this problem with a trunk build?

Comment 4

[Massimiliano Vessi]

Firefox seems to work great, try to restart PC. After a power-off and power-on, firefox doesn't work with Cyberbit.ttf in "/usr/X11R6/lib/font/TTF".

Comment 5

[Massimiliano Vessi]

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Build tools
Compiler  Version  Compiler flags
gcc  gcc version 3.4.4  -Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -pedantic -fPIC -march=k8 -O2 -pipe -pthread -pipe
c++  gcc version 3.4.4  -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -pedantic -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -fPIC -I/usr/X11R6/include

Configure arguments
--enable-application=browser

Comment 6

[timeless]

what are the permissions? (esp, is it readable)

firefox not starting isn't an exploitable condition. clearing flag.

Comment 7

[Adam Guthrie]

Where do you crash? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_a_stacktrace_with_gdb

Comment 8

[Kevin Brosnan]

This may have been fixed in Firefox 2 if you had incorrect permissions to access the font file Firefox crashed. Bug 183729 

Comment 9

[Caio Tiago Oliveira (asrail)]

Do you still can reproduce this one with Firefox 2.0?

Comment 10

[Kevin Brosnan]

No response from reporter closing bug WFM as no definitive dupe can be found.