pidgin crashes due to late invocation of g_thread_init

[Dorin Lazăr]

Binary package hint: pidgin

when ran from a terminal, the output goes like this:

***MEMORY-WARNING***: pidgin[13287]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program is likely to crash, leak or unexpectedly abort soon...
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171
  Major opcode: 149
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171
  Major opcode: 149
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[Dorin Lazăr (dorin-lazar)]

Pidgin crashes whenever I try to connect to a second account on yahoo.
Distribution: gutsy up to date as of 18.Jun.2007 17:00 CET

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Dorin Lazăr (dorin-lazar)]

I was afraid about that core drop, but if it's ok, then no problem, I had my doubts about the 'security issue' thing myself.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the bug:

 pidgin (1:2.0.2-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low
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   * New upstream version (LP: #117814)