Comment 0 for bug 1772506

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://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795826

Fix (for vte-0.52.x): https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-52&id=5966e8bfb

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!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libvte-2.91-0 0.52.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
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)