BUG: Info:query causes hundreds of Help windows to appear thus crashing box

[adam1mc]

I have an internal IRC chat channel that hooks to our domain that we use to communicate internally to one another. Someone posted straight text to the chat box which was automatically converted to a link: info:query

That text was posted and as I said it was automatically created into a link. Clicking that link on my Ubuntu 10.10 causes hundreds of empty 'help' windows to quickly spawn, thus hosing my box.

Figured this might be a potential buffer overflow and thought you guys may be interested...

- Adam
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.56-generic 2.6.35.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 9 16:09:05 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-power-manager:1723): Gtk-WARNING **: A floating object was finalized. This means that someone
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1848): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1850): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed