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Mitsuya Shibata (cosmos-door) wrote : gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()

Copy from debian bug report:

minimum test case

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 1. input characters between "", then crash
 2. input characters where as blank line, it doesn't crash

 a. on Wheezy it doesn't crash
 b. on Ubuntu 13.04, it doesn't crash, too
 c. on Sid, it crashes

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gedit 3.8.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-1.8-generic 3.10.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 1 21:51:43 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-01 (30 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130531)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: gedit
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fbe315b5767 <g_slice_alloc+167>: mov (%rbx),%rax
 PC (0x7fbe315b5767) ok
 source "(%rbx)" (0x1300000012) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gedit
StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_alloc () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 pango_attr_font_desc_new () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0
 pango_attribute_copy () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0
 pango_attr_list_copy () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0
Title: gedit crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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