Evolution crash when opening a mail

I had sent a Bug Buddy report the first time I experienced the problem. The bug that was open automatically just got classified as a duplicate of 353430 on bugzilla.gnome.org, so there is no point in reporting upstream. I guess this one can be closed too, but I will leave it open for now since I am not quite sure.

That's a GTK bug according to upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353430

This in turn makes it impossible to open Evolution is the preview default to the message causing the crash. I checked the upstream report and it contained this tip to be able to start Evolution in such cases and to simply prevent rendering of the mail.

You can disable the preview pane using this command:
gconftool-2 --set /apps/evolution/mail/display/show_preview --type bool 0

Checked the upstream bug. It seems many new duplicate bugs are being reported upstream.

I just closed the evolution task. The gtk+2.0 part is still valid.

It appears that the latest gtk security update fixes this issue. I tried the crasher listed in the evolution report and upstream and evolution did not crash.

Thanks for testing! I'd agree based on the upstream back-traces: this is the same issue fixed in the GDK pixbuf loader. Do other people find that the gtk update solves this problem for them?

For reference, the update was USN-415-1.

Kees, in what distribution has that one been fixed? Do you have some changelog entry for the upload? The upstream bug has not been marked fixed yet

Work for me, thanks !

Etienne can you confirm you checked it in Edgy ? Anyone reporting this as "Works for Me" (WFM), don't forget to specify your version.

In the update tool this is referred to as security update CVE-2007-0010 in Edgy as of today.

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0010

Indeed, Edgy it is.

WFM Dapper

seb128: the patch was from GTK upstream, based on Debian's patch from Loic Minier:

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gtk+2.0/debian/patches/?rev=8444&sc=0

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gtk+2.0/debian/patches/030_CVE-2007-0010_error-handling-in-pixbuf-loaders.patch?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

RedHat's bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218932

While the GTK bug seems to be the same code path, the commits that fixed it don't seem to be associated with any particular bug:

http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk%2B/trunk/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-loader.c?rev=17165&view=log

Closing, this appears to be fixed.