pidgin crashed changing icon with SIGSEGV in memcpy()

[Alejandro R. Mosteo]

Binary package hint: pidgin

This is a duplicate of bug 139081, but I was asked to open it with apport to get the collected information.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.1
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: pidgin
StacktraceTop:
 memcpy () from /lib/libc.so.6
 gdk_pixbuf_loader_write ()
 pidgin_status_box_redisplay_buddy_icon (
 buddy_icon_set_cb (
 do_callbacks (name=0x80fc0d4 "/pidgin/accounts/buddyicon",
Title: pidgin crashed with SIGSEGV in memcpy()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-server i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin mail plugdev vboxusers video www-data

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

I'm adding some useful information about the bug :

Screencast : http://upload.leservicetechnique.com/bugs/pidgin_mystatusbox.ogv

Steps to reproduce :
1. Start pidgin.
2. Go to Tools / Plugins and check the mystatusbox plugin.
3. Click on the bottom-right picture to change it.
4. Choose any png in your computer pictures.
5. If pidgin does not crash, repeat 3 and 4 until it does.

I also attach a backtrace, a strace and a valgrind

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

According to upstream pidgin developers, this issue has been fixed in pidgin 1.5.6 which is already in karmic. I installed 1.5.6 and was not able to reproduce the problem anymore. According to this, I set the status to fix released.