From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I submitted this because it is similar to a few other open bugs (138942 and 139712 among others). The problem comes shows up when using gphpedit version 9.50-1 as downloaded from the gphpedit.org site. I have submitted the following to their bug site: ************* http://www.gphpedit.org/bugs/bug_view.php?id=132 I'm running Fedora Core 3, up to date as of Jan 3, 2005 (today). Using the rpm-packaged version of gphpedit 0.9.50. Running under gnome. After doing a search and replace on "whole document" with the "replace all" button, the window indicating the number of replacements comes up. On clicking the "ok" button, the popup window closes and gphpedit stops responding and must be killed. The terminal from where gphpedit was launched has the following message *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08d99550 *** The hex address differs. This does not happen if I only do a single "find and replace" but is consistant with the "Replace All". ************* As in another bug (139712) setting MALLOC_CHECK_ environmental variable to 0 works around the problem. The problem does not exist in FC2. # rpm -q xorg-x11 xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install gphpedit (rpm, source rpm, or config-make-install) 2. open any file in gphpedit 3. choose search and replace, enter items for search/replace, and click the "replace all" button. 4. Popup window show up, on clicking "OK", window closes and application freezes with the "double free or corruption" message in terminal. Actual Results: Application freezes after closing popup window Expected Results: Popup window should close and the application should continue (as it does when $MALLOC_CHECK_=0) Additional info: I have submitted this to the gPHPEdit authors, but it seemed to be similar to other open problems in the fedora bugzilla.
This sounds like an application problem and is actually unrelated to xorg. Basically glibc is warning you about a dangerous bug *in gphpedit*. The reason the message appears is because gphpedit is faulty and turning off the warning by doing MALLOC_CHECK_=0 is only allowing silent memory corruption to happen. This could be disasterous (imagine an unseen line of the PHP you are editing having a "<" change to ">"). Reporting the bug to the gphpedit authors is pretty much the best thing you could have done short of pulling out gdb/valgrind and fixing the source of gphpedit yourself. Since gphpedit is not a part of Fedora there is nothing more the devs can do on this end. I suspect all the other double free warning bugs are against packages actually shipped with base Fedora...
I imagine this is correct, although I posted it here because I see the problem in FC3 but not FC2. Anyway, sorry if it is wasting time. eks
Sitsofe is correct, this is not an xorg-x11 bug, nor a Fedora Core bug. It is a bug in the application you are using. The reason the problem shows up in Fedora Core 3, is because FC3 glibc has new security features designed to detect security flaws in applications and report warnings when an application has a security vulnerability. This feature was not present in Fedora Core 2, so running this insecure application in FC2 will not give you any security warnings, however in both cases the software is insecure. The problem should be reported directly to the authors of the insecure application, so they can fix it. Setting status to NOTABUG, because this is not an xorg-x11 or Fedora Core bug.