Crash related to hyperlinks
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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vte2.91 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Iain Lane |
Bug Description
[ Description ]
A crash was discovered recently in VTE, triggered by the combination of explicit hyperlinks (a new feature of vte-0.50) and a non-aligned window size (e.g. Tilix, or maximized GNOME Terminal) due to a missing trivial boundary check.
Since GNOME Terminal handles all of its terminals in a single process, a crash causes all its terminals to disappear, making the consequences even worse.
Mainstream bugreport with technical details and steps to reproduce: https:/
Fix (for vte-0.52.x): https:/
Bionic ships 0.52.1. Mainstream 0.52.2 has been released with this code change only (apart from the version as reported by VTE itself), so instead of patching you could probably just simply bump the version number.
Older Ubuntu release are unaffected, since they didn't yet have support for explicit hyperlinks.
Jeremy & others, could you please release a fixed package as an update for Bionic LTS? Thanks a lot!
[ QA ]
Under the GNOME micro release exception, you can believe this bug is fixed. Please just test as outlined in bug #1774167
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libvte-2.91-0 0.52.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
Date: Mon May 21 22:06:38 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-11-09 (557 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
SourcePackage: vte2.91
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-03-14 (67 days ago)
description: | updated |
Changed in vte2.91 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in vte2.91 (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Iain Lane (laney) |
This bug was fixed in the package vte2.91 - 0.52.2-1ubuntu1
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vte2.91 (0.52.2-1ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=medium
[ Iain Lane ] the-style- context- provider- with-FALLBACK- priorit. patch:
* Merge with Debian. Remaining changes:
- debian/rules:
+ Use --without-pcre2
- Add revert-pcre2.patch:
+ Revert changes that require PCRE2 since it's not in main
(see MIR #163666)
- Add 91_keep_fds.patch since gdebi still requires it (LP: #1756238)
- 0001-Add-
+ Keep as it is required for the Ubuntu theming
* debian/gbp.conf: Update for Ubuntu
[ Rico Tzschichholz ] control{ ,.in}: Update Vcs-* for LP git
* revert-pcre2.patch:
- Don't revert unrelated g-i annotation changes to avoid unnecessary
gir/vapi API changes compared to upstream (LP: #1765389)
* revert-pcre2.patch: Refresh, fix a conflict.
* debian/
vte2.91 (0.52.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Iain Lane ]
* New upstream release 0.52.2 (LP: #1774167):
+ [5966e8b] ring: Proper boundary checking for hyperlink position.
This fixes a rare crash around hyperlinks in a non grid aligned VTE
widget when the mouse enters the extra padding at the bottom. (LP:
#1772506)
+ [7322c27] all: Fix spelling
-- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Wed, 30 May 2018 13:09:28 +0100