Bug 880381

Summary: remote-viewer crashes with - *** glibc detected *** remote-viewer: double free or corruption (out): 0x0000000000d90f70 ***
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Scott Dowdle <dowdle>
Component: virt-viewerAssignee: Daniel Berrange <berrange>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 18CC: berrange, cfergeau, crobinso, virt-maint
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Description Scott Dowdle 2012-11-26 15:55:53 EST 
Description of problem: When I try to connect to a remote KVM virtual machine with SPICE, remote-viewer crashes after authentication with the following error:

*** glibc detected *** remote-viewer: double free or corruption (out): 0x0000000000d90f70 ***

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-viewer-0.5.4-2.fc18.x86_64

How reproducible:
Try to connect to a remote KVM virtual machine with SPICE

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to connect to a remote KVM virtual machine with spice
2. Authentication dialog appears and password is typed in
3. Program crashes
  
Actual results:
The program crashes

Expected results:
It should connect and provide a display to the remote VM.

Additional info:
Luckily, spicy is still working for me so I'm not stranded.
Comment 1 Scott Dowdle 2012-11-27 02:02:25 EST 
I was able to duplicate this bug on a different machine with the same install (Fedora 18 64bit) and package version.  remote-viewer would connect and display properly until I enabled the password option at which point it would crash with the error previously mentioned.
Comment 2 Christophe Fergeau 2012-11-27 04:32:48 EST 
Created attachment 652561 [details]
Patch fixing this crash
Comment 3 Scott Dowdle 2012-12-07 12:49:47 EST 
So, any chance we can get an updated package pushed into updates-testing with the fix applied?
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-12-14 17:26:23 EST 
virt-viewer-0.5.4-3.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-viewer-0.5.4-3.fc18
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-01-11 18:44:50 EST 
virt-viewer-0.5.4-3.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.