[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#782772: logging into metnors.debian.net crashes iceweasel ..

[Norbert Preining]

On Sun, 17 May 2015, Paul Wise wrote:
> > it seems there is a serious problem with iceweasel crashing on
> > https sites even from Debian, like mentors.debian.org
> > (interestingly *not* https://www.debian.org/)
> > 
> > I have contacted the Debian Mentors Team, and Paul Wise
> > advised me to contact both security and icewease packaging team.
> > 
> > I have reproduced this with iceweasel --safe-mode, it crashes
> > (segfaults) repeatetly when accessing any 
> > 	https://mentors.debian.org/
> > I guess this must be a but in Iceweasel, but follow the advise
> > of Paul to contact security, too.
> 
> There is now a public bug report about this:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/782772

Unfortunately, this seems to be different. I have HTTPS Everywhere
disabled, and it still crashes.

Then I removed the package from Debian and it still crashes.

So it seems there are more things concerned. I have also disabled
other SSL related addons, without success. Crash is 100% repeatable.

Norbert

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