[Bug 723830] Re: seamonkey-2.0-bin assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.0.11/seamonkey-2.0-bin terminated

[masinick]

I find the same (or similar) defect in 2.0.13.  On one hand, the
argument might be that I have multiple configurations and that creates
problems, but the counter argument to that is that if I download my own
instance of Seamonkey (which I did with 2.0.11 and 2.0.13) I do not have
this buffer overflow problem, nor do I see it at all if I run it on a
non-Canonical distribution.  Since the Ubuntu-based .deb packages are
the only variable I can discern, I continue to believe that something in
the way you build these packages contributes to the buffer overflow
condition.

You can close this issue if you wish, but only if you keep another
defect open for the same issue for the 2.0.13 build.  It's too bad we
haven't found the root cause of this problem; it is really the only
defect I've discovered in the 11.04 release cycle, which makes me wonder
if there isn't some kind of interaction with the kernels being used.  I
had been using the 2.0.11 release on the 10.10 release of Kubuntu and
Ubuntu just prior to this, and did not see any instability whatsoever,
so this buffer overflow seems somehow related to infrastructure changes
in the 11.04 release stream, but I don't have the tools or the
wherewithal to test that conjecture, but it has been my consistent
observation.

If the stack traces don't provide enough information, think about my
comments and see if they cause you to examine areas of the code that may
somehow interact with core components of the environment.  If not the
kernel, what about changes to the X server?

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Title:
  seamonkey-2.0-bin assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***:
  /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.0.11/seamonkey-2.0-bin terminated

Status in “seamonkey” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: seamonkey

  Seamonkey has consistently crashed since I started using the Alpha
  builds in the 11.04 series.  Previous versions of Seamonkey with
  Kubuntu or Xubuntu were quite reliable; since Alpha testing, even
  accessing a few Web pages has been difficult.  Looks like a buffer
  overflow is the culprit.  Until the debugger came up, I had no
  diagnostic information to provide; otherwise I would have sent it in
  much sooner.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: seamonkey-browser 2.0.11+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-4.31-generic 2.6.38-rc5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-4-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Architecture: i386
  AssertionMessage: *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.0.11/seamonkey-2.0-bin terminated
  Date: Wed Feb 23 12:16:55 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.0.11/seamonkey-2.0-bin
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110202)
  ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.0.11/seamonkey-2.0-bin
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  Signal: 6
  SourcePackage: seamonkey
  StacktraceTop:
   __kernel_vsyscall ()
   raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
   abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
   ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
   __fortify_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6
  Title: seamonkey-2.0-bin assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.0.11/seamonkey-2.0-bin terminated
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