chromium-browser crashed with SIGSEGV in TrimURL<char>()

[James Henstridge]

Binary package hint: chromium-browser

After installing the latest security updates for chromium-browser via update-manager, I noticed that Chromium started crashing after a short period of time. That is, the entire browser crashed rather than a single page, and happened even if I left the browser open and didn't interact with it.

I tried sending a full apport crash dump, but after waiting ages for it to upload I got an error dialog saying there was a "502 Gateway" response. I guess the crash report code doesn't expect such large uploads (235MB in this case). I installed the chromium-browser-dbg package before uploading this report, so hopefully there is some useful information in the report.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: chromium-browser 9.0.597.84~r72991-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Feb 7 10:11:58 2011
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = gnome
 GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID = this-is-deprecated
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
LocalLibraries: /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
ProcCwd: /home/james
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
StacktraceTop:
 TrimURL<char> (url=0x7f5bb9f99c18 "http://static.thebigchair.com.au/mycareerjobbox/article-smh-generic", url_len=67, parsed=0x7f5b9c3abcb0) at ./googleurl/src/url_parse_internal.h:63
 DoParseStandardURL<char> (url=0x7f5bb9f99c18 "http://static.thebigchair.com.au/mycareerjobbox/article-smh-generic", url_len=67, parsed=0x7f5b9c3abcb0) at googleurl/src/url_parse.cc:321
 url_parse::ParseStandardURL (url=0x7f5bb9f99c18 "http://static.thebigchair.com.au/mycareerjobbox/article-smh-generic", url_len=67, parsed=0x7f5b9c3abcb0) at googleurl/src/url_parse.cc:707
 url_util::(anonymous namespace)::DoCanonicalize<char> (in_spec=<value optimised out>, in_spec_len=<value optimised out>, charset_converter=0x0, output=0x7f5b9c3ac160, output_parsed=0x7f5b9c3ac1cc) at googleurl/src/url_util.cc:193
 (anonymous namespace)::InitCanonical<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > (input_spec=..., canonical=<value optimised out>, parsed=0x7f5b9c3ac1cc) at googleurl/src/gurl.cc:59
Title: chromium-browser crashed with SIGSEGV in TrimURL<char>()
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chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

I've upgraded to the 9.0.597.94~r73967-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 release now, and have not yet been able to reproduce the crash.

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

I searched for a similar bug in the upstream BTS last week, found nothing related.
If you can reproduce it with the last version, we'll push it upstream.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported