Pidgin crashes if I select text on chat and try to drag and drop it

Bug #1750941 reported by Leonardo Müller
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Bug Description

When I select text on Pidgin's chat and try to drag and drop it, the pidgin crashes. This crash creates no file in /var/crash and gdb is very inconclusive:

$ sudo gdb
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(gdb) attach 23768
Anexando a process 23768
[New LWP 23769]
[New LWP 23771]
[New LWP 23772]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
0x00007fc9e38ba951 in __GI___poll (fds=0x7fc9c0001650, nfds=7, timeout=6998)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:29
29 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado.
(gdb) continue
Continuando.
[Thread 0x7fc9c9bf0700 (LWP 23772) exited]
[Thread 0x7fc9ca3f1700 (LWP 23771) exited]
[Thread 0x7fc9ccd28700 (LWP 23769) exited]
[Inferior 1 (process 23768) exited with code 01]
(gdb) bt
No stack.

This is easily reproducible, as it happens always I select text on the chat and try to drag and drop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: pidgin 1:2.12.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Feb 21 22:58:19 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-13 (253 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2017-10-20 (125 days ago)

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