realplay.bin may be causing 100% Xorg CPU load
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| realplayer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: realplayer
After an upgrade to ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic), my Xorg occasionally starts taking 100% CPU. This stops when I kill realplay.bin (from package realplay 11.0.1.1056).
If I am listening to realplay, then the sound is unaffected; I'm not sure what it would do on a single-core machine. The problem has also happened when I was not playing anything on realplay.bin.
The bug is not repeatable, but killing realplay.bin is a repeatable way of reducing the Xorg CPU load.
My Xserver has been running for 14 days (about 9 hours a day, hibernated each day).
xserver-xorg-core version 2:1.6.4-2ubuntu4.1
xorg meta-package version 1:7.4+3ubuntu10.
% uname -a
Linux (hostname) 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 16:20:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
I've ticked the box "This bug is a security vulnerability", solely because this could be a DoS vector.
| visibility: | private → public |
| Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote | #1 |
| security vulnerability: | yes → no |
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.