[23459] in bugtraq
Re: Crashing X
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Starzetz)
Tue Dec 11 16:25:15 2001
Message-ID: <3C15E358.7060807@imag.fr>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:43:36 +0100
From: Paul Starzetz <Paul.Starzetz@imag.fr>
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: KF <dotslash@snosoft.com>, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
KF wrote:
> I reported a similar issue several months ago... I was seeing X crash
> via xterm -title `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> and also with html web pages with long title tags... Heres some strace
> snippits. I am on a ppc linux box Mandrake 8.0
Same for stock SuSE 7.3 and kernel 2.4.16. The xterm window will show
up, but after a few seconds, the X crashes completely.
/ih
