** Changed in: vala
Status: Unknown => Confirmed
** Changed in: vala
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1659828
Title:
Crash on promoting to queen fairymax engine
Status in Vala:
Confirmed
Status in gnome-chess package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Status in gnome-chess source package in Yakkety:
New
Bug description:
Impact
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The Chess app in Ubuntu 16.10 will crash when trying to promote a pawn.
gnome-chess is not installed by default by any current Ubuntu flavors.
Test Case
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1. Open the Chess app and click Preferences in the app menu. Change Opposing
Player to Human. Close Preferences.
2. Make a move then click New Game to start a new game without a computer
player.
3. Move a pawn to the far end of the board to promote it to Queen.
Does Chess crash after promoting?
Regression Potential
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Low.
Other Info
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I discussed this patch with Michael Catanzaro, the gnome-chess maintainer who
had this to say:
"That patch is one way to work around it... the workaround I used in Fedora
is to not use any hardening flags when compiling the package. If anyone's
computer gets hacked because someone finds a way to get code execution via
malformed Portable Game Notation, then accept my apologies in advance. ;)"
This only affect Ubuntu 16.10 since that was the first release where
we opted gnome-chess into all available hardening flags.
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