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Description of problem: When the help dialog of Alliance (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/alliance) Schematic viewer or pattern viewer is opened, the application crashes out. Both these applications depends on lesstif. Upon enabling debuginfo, it was found that the last crash debug info was with _XmRenderTableFinaliseTag(). Googling landed me with this Debian bug report http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439186 which clearly seems to be a similar crash of another app. As mentioned in that bug report, there seems to be a missing boundary check in one of the "experimental" code and a simple patch is also provided. (pasted below too) Upon investigating further with lesstif source code in Fedora, the patch seems to have not been applied here and could be the reason for the crash. Request to patch the file and update as it affects all applications using lesstif2. Thanks in advance. Patch attached. How reproducible: Always
Created attachment 313127 [details] patch
Linked with bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368441
Please consider that this bug affects some of alliance(from Fedora Electronic Lab) windows and that we are waiting for an immediate fix. Thank you.
This has already been fixed (we base our lesstif packages on Debian's and rebase every so often) in lesstif-0.95.0-26 which is in rawhide. I'll prepare an lesstrif update to lesstif-0.95.0-26 for F-8 and F-9.
lesstif-0.95.0-26.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
lesstif-0.95.0-26.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
lesstif-0.95.0-26.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
lesstif-0.95.0-26.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Shouldn't this bug be closed now ?
Yes, bodhi should have done that, closing.