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Re: Crashing X

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (munehiro)
Sat Dec 8 04:52:40 2001

Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 01:41:09 +0100
From: munehiro <munehiro@ferrara.linux.it>
To: smackenz@brad.ac.uk
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-ID: <20011208014109.A31864@ferrara.linux.it>
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In-Reply-To: <01120720451400.04541@mainframe>; from smackenz@sdf.lonestar.org on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:26:53PM +0000

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:26:53PM +0000, scott wrote:
> I have discovered a little bug in K Desktop 2.1.2 that crashes your X Server.
> 
> By using the konqueror web browser and inputting around 9000+ A's (or 
> whatever) into a search box (for instance www.yahoo.com's web search box) - 
> this will crash your X environment.
> 

i reported this problem some month ago to the kde team. They suggested me to
report the issue to the XFree development team. I did it but i never obtained
a reply. Probably the problem was fixed in the while.



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