Upgrading libtiff4/libtiffxx0c2/libtiff4-dev to 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.6 causes skype to frequently crash on startup

[Ubiratan Pires Alberton]

I've been using Skype version 2.1.0.81-1ubuntu5 for a while with no issues. Recently, however, the tiff libraries (libtiff4, libtiffxx0c2 and libtiff4-dev) were updated to version 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.6 (a security update) and this has caused Skype to crash about 9 times out of 10 when I try to open it. Even when it does start up successfully, it will crash when I receive a call, or otherwise crash randomly during usage.

I've managed to track this down to a possible problem in /usr/lib32/libtiff.so.4.3.2 through the attached strace output (from the "strace skype") :

open("/usr/lib32/libtiff.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 18
read(18, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0L\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(18, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=366580, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 370464, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 18, 0) = 0xfffffffff535d000
mmap2(0xf53b5000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 18, 0x57) = 0xfffffffff53b5000
close(18) = 0
mprotect(0xf53b5000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0xf5467000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0xf53b8000, 114240) = 0
brk(0xb1c6000) = 0xb1c6000
brk(0xb1be000) = 0xb1be000
poll([{fd=7, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, 4294967295) = 1 ([{fd=7, revents=POLLOUT}])
writev(7, [{"5 \4\0\2\0\0\5\235\0\0\0\200\0\271\0\232\4\5\0\3\0\0\5\2\0\0\5v\0\0\0"..., 76}, {"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 94720}, {"", 0}], 3) = 94796
brk(0xb19e000) = 0xb19e000
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {41453, 591369937}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {41453, 591812758}) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
madvise(0xff920000, 1, MADV_WILLNEED) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
madvise(0xff921000, 1, MADV_WILLNEED) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
madvise(0xff922000, 1, MADV_WILLNEED) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
madvise(0xff923000, 1, MADV_WILLNEED) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
rt_sigaction(SIGABRT, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0
tgkill(20666, 20666, SIGABRT) = 0
--- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGABRT +++

The crash and SIGABRT depicted above always happen shortly after opening that libtiff file.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: libtiff4 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-30.59-generic 2.6.32.29+drm33.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 6 02:18:51 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: tiff

[dino99 (9d9)]

Closing that outdated report as EOL has been reached long time ago