On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 15:20 +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> * Thomas Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-22 08:19]:
> [...] 
> > When browsing around web sites that I supposed were harmless
> > (en.wikipedia.org, some newspaper websites) I got crashes, plus
> > coredumps.  The next morning, I got a message from my ISP that my
> > system had been used for sending out spam.
> > 
> > After the fact, I installed iceweasel-dgb and ran gdb on the
> > resulting corefile.  Output from a gdb session is included.
> 
> How can you be sure that the spam thing is related to a 
> browser crash?

I can't be sure to 100%.  This was simply the first crash for a long
time, and the spam issue happened on the same evening.

Chances are they were related.

> I mean a browser crash is not that uncommon 
> these days. Can you provide URLs for some of the sides?

I can't say exactly, sorry.  I was browsing around Ancient
Mesopotamia history on http://en.wikipedia.org (but I've
since been unable to reproduce the crash).

        Thomas




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