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FS#65851 - [x11vnc] crash when moving Chromium window

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jonathan Liu (net147) - Monday, 16 March 2020, 09:32 GMT
Last edited by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Monday, 16 March 2020, 18:49 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Moving a Chromium window can sometimes cause x11vnc to crash due to a NULL pointer dereference in cursor image handling.
This is fixed upstream.

Additional info:
* tigervnc 1.10.1-1
* x11vnc 1:0.9.16-1
* https://github.com/LibVNC/x11vnc/pull/123

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/LibVNC/x11vnc/commit/95a10ab64c2dbbec2c8dad91a5ffb73a0d68474b.patch

Steps to reproduce:
1. Connect to remote KDE plasma desktop running x11vnc server using vncviewer from tigervnc package
2. Start Chromium inside the VNC session
3. Move Chromium window around to a different location. Repeat until server crashes.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Monday, 16 March 2020, 18:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  x11vnc-1:0.9.16-2 in [extra]
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Monday, 16 March 2020, 18:46 GMT
Thanks a lot for such a thorough bug report!

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