** Description changed:
+ [ 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://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!
+ [ 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
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)
** Also affects: vte2.91 (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: vte2.91 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Committed
** Changed in: vte2.91 (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: vte2.91 (Ubuntu Bionic)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Iain Lane (laney)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1772506
Title:
Crash related to hyperlinks
Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Status in vte2.91 source package in Bionic:
In Progress
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://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!
[ 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
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)
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