Bug#384708: gedit can cause xorg to restart unexpectedly

[Clifton T. Luster]

Package: gedit
Version: 2.14.3-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software


pasting 'extremely' long lines of text can make gedit crash xorg,
causing a restart and losing any unsaved data/files/work

text was pasted from 'view page source' option in browser,
computer generated html from 'sitebuilder'

big ugly code with long lone lines and huge whitespace areas

bug #360535 seems related, but not as severe:
gedit performs very slowly, hogs a ton of memory, and crashes on large datasets without newlines



hth
ctl
aka jetscreamer


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.17.1.2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.14.0-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gedit-common               2.14.3-1      light-weight text editor support f
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.17-1      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaspell15                0.60.4-4      GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.12.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                      2.3.6.ds1-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                2.14.0-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.0-2     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.10.3-3      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.14.1-3      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.14.0-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0         2.12.1-6      The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0       2.12.1-4      GNOME 2.2 print architecture User 
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.14.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             2.14.2-1      GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.8.20-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtksourceview1.0-0      1.6.2-1       shared libraries for the GTK+ synt
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.12.3-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.0-8     X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.26.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper               0.3.14-11     A free electronic cataloging syste

gedit recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information