Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #78725
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 78725

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Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote :

This is all because of races in older versions of glibc. Namely those two (now fixed) bugs are at fault:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5058 (a.k.a. http://bugs.debian.org/443660)
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5443 (a.k.a. http://bugs.debian.org/456531)

In upstream glibc, those bugs are fixed with version 2.8. In Debian, 2.7-11 has the backported fixes. I have not been able to test on Ubuntu yet, but I assume this means the bug is in all versions before Intrepid.