firefox assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/firefox: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0xad8d84e0 ***

[Kevin Soviero]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

I was watching a flash video (hulu) via firefox. When I pressed the "full screen" button, I expected it to play the video at the full size of the screen. Instead it killed firefox... Not quite what I was expecting.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/firefox: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0xad8d84e0 ***
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Sep 2 19:04:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/firefox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/firefox
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: firefox assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/firefox: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0xad8d84e0 ***
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:__kernel_vsyscall ()
*__GI_raise (sig=6)
*__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
__libc_message (do_abort=2,
malloc_printerr (action=<value optimized out>,

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 333127, so it is being marked as such. This has been fixed in Firefox 3.5.3 Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.