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FS#22989 - [gnome-terminal] Denial-of-service bug in gnome-terminal and gnome-help

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Patrik Lindström (patson) - Monday, 21 February 2011, 15:34 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 15:34 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Pressing the keys F1 and 5 together causes gnome-help to open, spawning new
windows until the window manager is overloaded and/or the computer becomes
unresponsive.

The only fix is to SSH into the affected machine and killall -9 gnome-help.

This bug was discovered while using irssi and accidentally pressing
F1 and 5 instead of ESC and 5 while switching windows.


Additional info:

Using GNOME 2.32.1 on x86_64, reproduced on two machines. Running all
latest stable packages.


Will report this upstream after further confirmation and testing on other distributions.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 15:34 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  gnome-terminal 3.0.1
Comment by Patrik Lindström (patson) - Monday, 21 February 2011, 15:37 GMT
Right, apparently just pressing F1 or opening help does this.
I have no idea what brainfart prompted me to associate any other keystroke with this. Will investigate further.

Update: apparently this only applies to the help page of gnome-terminal; other gnome applications open up their help pages without issue (so is not an issue in gnome-help directly).
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 14 March 2011, 15:54 GMT
Is this related to  FS#18986 ?

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