gnome-panel crashes when firefox is open to a particular page
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-panel
Opening this URL:
http://
in firefox, on a completely up-to-date Ubuntu 8.10 install crashes gnome-panel.
I've had a couple of other people reproduce this. Note: depending on the nature of the bug, it is possibly a security issue. It is causing gnome-panel to segfault and depending on what exactly is doing that, it is feasible that it's exploitable.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2.1
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/
LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686
Oh, forgot to mention: switching to another tab in FF is enough to stop the repeated crashing and get your panel back.