Comment 30 for bug 7170

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:22:01 -0500
From: Branden Robinson <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#250655: xterm: crashes on paste from abiword

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reassign 250655 libx11-6
retitle 250655 libx11-6: SEGV in _XTextPropertyToTextList() causes apps to =
crash
# This bug potentially affects many, many X clients. I also think it's a
# regression from woody.
severity 250655 serious
tag 250655 - help

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 02:07:38PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 11:29:11PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 06:17:50PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > As far as I can determine, the bug is in the X libraries. Running ag=
ainst
> > > the XFree86 4.3.0 build tree, I can reproduce the bug. Running again=
st
> > > XFree86 4.4.0 I cannot reproduce the bug. This is independent of the
> > > version of xterm, and since it appears to have been fixed in the later
> > > X libraries indicates to me that it should be reassigned to libxt6.
> >=20
> > Are you reasonably confident that it's Xt that has been fixed upstream
> > or is that just a guess? I.e., could it be Xlib insteaad? Which way
> > would you bet?
>=20
> I narrowed it down by test-builds to the end of May 2003. There's a
> changelog entry which at that point stood out, and applying the fix to
> my build tree seems to fix the bug we're discussing. Here's the URL:
>=20
> http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D315
>=20
> (it's a file in Xlib)

Thanks, Thomas!

Reassigning and updating this bug accordingly.

Bug submitters: assuming our diagnosis is correct, you can expect this bug
to be fixed in the next Debian package release of XFree86.

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