full-disclosure - Re: Kmail <= 1.9.1 (latest) DOS

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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:55:39 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: "the.soylent" <the.soylent@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Kmail <= 1.9.1 (latest) DOS

On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:33:36 +0200, "the.soylent" said:
>
> interesting part:
> when the x server previously runs on tty7, it runs after crash at tty8
> and vice versa.
> at the "crashed tty" is displayed the following (64bit):
> 
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal):
> 0x0000000001094d50 *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption
> (!prev) 0x00000000010661e0 ***

This smells suspiciously like what crashed was your window manager rather
than the X server itself.  Trying to create a window much larger than the
physical screen is a good way to make this happen...

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