vlc crashed with SIGSEGV

[Evan Huus]

Trying to open a Matroska video file, H.264-encoded, MPEG-4 AAC audio. Worked a few days ago on similar files, so presumably this is some library mismatch (missing depends maybe)?

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: vlc-nox 2.1.2-2build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.28-generic 3.13.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Feb 17 18:14:34 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-09-24 (877 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.2)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file /media/username/video.mkv
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fc23985e57b: callq 0x7fc23985e180 <read@plt>
 PC (0x7fc23985e57b) ok
 source "0x7fc23985e180" (0x7fc23985e180) ok
 destination "(%rsp)" (0x7fc2422c9ff0) in non-writable VMA region: 0x7fc2422c9000-0x7fc2422ca000 ---p None
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: writing VMA None
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/access/libfilesystem_plugin.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.7
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.7
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.7
 ?? () from /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/stream_filter/librecord_plugin.so
Title: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-12-20 (59 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout kismet lpadmin plugdev sambashare wireshark

[Evan Huus (eapache)]

Actually, it looks like a corrupt file, it still works fine for other files. Just this one file causes an enormous number of the following identical errors:

[0x7fbefc002348] mkv demux error: Dummy element too large or misplaced at 142474172... skipping to next upper element

and then the crash.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 read (__nbytes=27573, __buf=0x7fc224be4652, __fd=7) at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/unistd.h:44
 FileRead (p_access=0x7fc2240043c8, p_buffer=0x7fc224be4652 "", i_len=27573) at file.c:286
 AReadStream (s=s@entry=0x7fc224004808, p_read=0x7fc224be4652, i_read=i_read@entry=27573) at input/stream.c:1663
 AStreamRefillStream (s=s@entry=0x7fc224004808) at input/stream.c:1363
 AStreamSeekStream (s=0x7fc224004808, i_pos=142474176) at input/stream.c:1263

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

This is an infinite recursion (until stack overflow) inside libebml...