On Di, 2015-09-01 at 10:25 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-09-01 11:07:28 +0300, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > > The gcc 5 transition might've broken something related to > > iceweasel, > > which is written in C++ and depends a lot on C++ libraries. Which > > then > > might result in the invalid memory accesses mentioned above. > > > > But GStreamer and dependencies in use here are plain C, so are > > unaffected by that transition. Same for GTK. > > No, GStreamer is linked against libpcre:
GLib is linked against pcre, yes. But nothing there is actually using it, and even if it was you would see something blowing up with regex handling instead :) > > I think there are problems somewhere in iceweasel in the way it is > > using GTK, which is independent of the gcc 5 transition. And which > > might or might not be the reason for the crash. > > I would tend to say that the effects of these GTK problems are only > local. If they yield more global memory corruption due to specific > remote contents (e.g. a video), then this is an important security > issue. Who knows? It's poking at memory that was freed already and things like that, which could cause random crashes at a later time.
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