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wireshark crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc_printerr()

Bug #1302143 reported by wizwiz50 on 2014-04-03

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	wireshark (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

crash when i'm openning a small capture done with tcpdump

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: wireshark 1.10.6-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-21.43-generic 3.13.8
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Apr 3 21:31:07 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/wireshark
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-22 (620 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcCmdline: wireshark
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x7fe83c23f634 <malloc_consolidate+52>: movq $0x1,0x18(%rsp)
PC (0x7fe83c23f634) ok
source "$0x1" ok
destination "0x18(%rsp)" (0x7fff82988fd8) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: wireshark
StacktraceTop:
malloc_printerr (ptr=<optimized out>, str=<optimized out>, action=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:4992
malloc_consolidate (av=av@entry=0x7fe83c57f760 <main_arena>) at malloc.c:4157
_int_malloc (av=0x7fe83c57f760 <main_arena>, bytes=2080) at malloc.c:3423
_int_memalign (av=0x7fe83c57f760 <main_arena>, alignment=1024, bytes=2096, bytes@entry=1008) at malloc.c:4403
_mid_memalign (alignment=1024, bytes=1008, address=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:3106
Title: wireshark crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc_printerr()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-10 (24 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers

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wizwiz50 (wizwiz50) wrote on 2014-04-03:

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2014-04-03:

StacktraceTop:
malloc_printerr (ptr=<optimized out>, str=<optimized out>, action=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:4992
malloc_consolidate (av=av@entry=0x7fe83c57f760 <main_arena>) at malloc.c:4157
_int_malloc (av=0x7fe83c57f760 <main_arena>, bytes=2080) at malloc.c:3423
_int_memalign (av=0x7fe83c57f760 <main_arena>, alignment=1024, bytes=2096, bytes@entry=1008) at malloc.c:4403
_mid_memalign (alignment=1024, bytes=1008, address=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:3106

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Changed in wireshark (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-amd64-retrace

Steve Beattie (sbeattie) on 2015-04-07

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Private → Public

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-06-09:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in wireshark (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Sven Berkvens-Matthijsse (sven-launchpad) wrote on 2015-06-09:

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The problem is easily solved by uninstalling the package overlay-scrollbars. It does not seem to handle the case well in which there is very little room for a scrollbar or something like that. Running wireshark from the console yields messages like:

(wireshark:3889): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_range_get_adjustment: assertion 'GTK_IS_RANGE (range)' failed

(wireshark:3889): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to 'GtkOrientable'

(wireshark:3889): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_orientable_get_orientation: assertion 'GTK_IS_ORIENTABLE (orientable)' failed

(wireshark:3889): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to 'GtkScrollbar'

(wireshark:3889): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to 'GtkWidget'

(wireshark:3889): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to 'GObject'

(wireshark:3889): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_qdata: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(wireshark:3889): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_name: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(wireshark:3889): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to 'GObject'

(wireshark:3889): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_qdata_full: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(wireshark:3889): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to 'GtkRange'