vlc skins2/Xlib heap corruption
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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VLC media player |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
vlc (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: vlc
VLC crashed probably playing an invalid video. Just reporting for the sake of it...
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/vlc: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08d2b880 ***
Date: Thu Feb 4 19:29:19 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
Package: vlc-nox 1.0.4-2ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/vlc /home/username/
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop:
__kernel_vsyscall ()
raise () from /lib/tls/
abort () from /lib/tls/
?? () from /lib/tls/
?? () from /lib/tls/
Title: vlc assert failure: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/vlc: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08d2b880 ***
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare video
Changed in vlc (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in vlc: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Actually, this crash took place within the user interface task, not the video decoder.
VLC 1.0.* Skins is well known to crash on Linux/X11. This should be resolved in VLC 1.1.