Bug 140904 – mozilla and mozilla-based browsers crash when attempting to print if env PRINTER is set to non-existing printer

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Bug 140904 - mozilla and mozilla-based browsers crash when attempting to print if env PRINTER is set to non-existing printer

Summary:	mozilla and mozilla-based browsers crash when attempting to print if env PRIN...

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	mozilla (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Christopher Aillon
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2004-11-26 04:14 EST by Piero Serini
Modified:	2008-08-02 19:40 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2006-10-31 11:13:56 EST
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Description Piero Serini 2004-11-26 04:14:10 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20041020 Galeon/1.3.18

Description of problem:
mozilla and mozilla-based browsers (firefox, galeon, etc.) crash
(die of SIGSEGV) when attempting to print (selecting File->Print)
if environment variable 'PRINTER' is set to non-existing printer.

strace and ltrace show the SIGSEGV occurs in a strncasecmp.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mozilla-1.7.3-17

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. export PRINTER=foobar # assuming no printer named 'foobar' exists
2. launch mozilla/firefox/galeon
3. Select File -> Print

    

Actual Results:  SIGSEGV

Expected Results:  popup of printing menu

Additional info:

workaround: unset PRINTER, or set it to a correct PRINTER.

Nonetheless, there may be a good reason for having it set to
something not in /etc/printcap.

Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2006-07-10 16:45:12 EDT

Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security
updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and
reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and
hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test
release, reopen and change the version to match.

Thank you!

Comment 2 John Thacker 2006-10-31 11:13:56 EST

Works fine in RHEL4 and FC6.  Suspect that it got fixed upstream.

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