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No server currently is sending malformed packets
I do not have time to set one up locally
This could possibly be exploited as a security issue
(its certainly effective DoS)
I've upgraded since no idea if this is still a bug mine...
darkrain42 wrote:
> A typo, it should read 'debug'.
>
> Start p
A typo, it should read 'debug'.
Start pidgin from a terminal and pass it the -d command-line option. You
can optionally pipe it to a file (`pidgin -d > debug.log`) and open the
file afterward. You probably don't need to attach the full log but the
last 20 lines or so before it crashes should be su
the client reported a Null message error before the seg fault,
where might I find the "ebug" log?
darkrain42 wrote:
> What do you mean by "Null" message? What is the XML (check the ebug log
> -- `pidgin -d`) that you receive that makes it crash?
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What do you mean by "Null" message? What is the XML (check the ebug log
-- `pidgin -d`) that you receive that makes it crash?
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pidgin seg fault when xmpp server sends NULL conversation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335511
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* Is this reproducible?
only if a server sends null messages (jabber.org was doing quite a lot
for a while, you would have to set up a local server for testing)
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
send null messages to a pidgin client
* Could you try on jaunty now
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I am using Jaunty with pidgin 2.5.4
I installed the debug info but was unable to get a meaningful backtrace
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/pidgin
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7f86184127d0 (LWP 6156)]
[New Thread 0x7f85fa041950 (LWP 6175)]
[New Thread 0x7f85f8
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