Bug#935986: icedtea-netx: javaws eats all memory, crashing machine

[Ondrej Zary]

Package: icedtea-netx
Version: 1.7.2-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
when trying to launch (at least) iDRAC9 virtual console, javaws eats up all
the memory, machine starts thrashing to the point it requires hard reset in
a couple of seconds. Downgrading icedtea-netx to 1.6.2-3.1+deb9u1 (keeping
openjdk-11 as default) fixes the problem.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages icedtea-netx depends on:
ii  default-jre      2:1.11-71
ii  librhino-java    1.7.7.1-1
ii  libtagsoup-java  1.2.1+-1

icedtea-netx recommends no packages.

icedtea-netx suggests no packages.

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