gnome-panel crashes when visiting page in firefox

[broger557]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

When visiting page http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/ in firefox gnome-panel goes into crashing and restarting loop.

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

/var/log/syslog:
Apr 7 07:18:48 master kernel: [ 3311.453119] gnome-panel[14861]: segfault at 0 ip b7774214 sp bf9338b0 error 4 in libpango-1.0.so.0.2202.0[b7754000+40000]
Apr 7 07:18:51 master kernel: [ 3314.093584] gnome-panel[15039]: segfault at 0 ip b77c8214 sp bfa88320 error 4 in libpango-1.0.so.0.2202.0[b77a8000+40000]
Apr 7 07:18:52 master kernel: [ 3315.312151] gnome-panel[15061]: segfault at 0 ip b780e214 sp bfacbb70 error 4 in libpango-1.0.so.0.2202.0[b77ee000+40000]
Apr 7 07:18:53 master kernel: [ 3316.281691] gnome-panel[15072]: segfault at 0 ip b77e9214 sp bfda8d30 error 4 in libpango-1.0.so.0.2202.0[b77c9000+40000]

gnome-panel:
  Installed: 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2.1

firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.2

libpango1.0-0:
  Installed: 1.22.2-0ubuntu1

[Julian Lam (julian-lam)]

I've attached a copy of that website's index.html. Opening this html file locally causes the panel to crash and restart, so it is definitely something in the HTML file.

[Julian Lam (julian-lam)]

Come to think of it, because this affects the gnome-panel and causes a segmentation fault, could this be a security issue?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

just curious but is there some forum tell users to open a bug about that or what, there has been a ton of duplicates today where the crahs is known for 6 months and has got not a many duplicates during this time