Bug#686250: vlc segfaults when opening directory containing "(" or ")"

[Giovanni Mascellani]

Hi.

Il 30/08/2012 17:04, twied ha scritto:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 2.0.3-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Vlc crashes with a segfault under the following condition:
> - Drag and drop an directory with "(" and ")" into the playlist
> - Have vlc finish playing the last song or video before the dropped directory
> 
> If I just drop some directories (which are named $album "(" $year ")")
> into the playlist, vlc will crash after finishing the first album. This does
> not happen if I double click a dropped directory in the playlist. Then vlc just
> opens the directories and plays the files.

I can't reproduce it on my system. Anyway, this seems to have to do more
with libdvdnav than with vlc. Could you please check which version of
libdvdnav you're using with:

apt-cache policy libdvdnav4

?

Thanks, Giovanni.
-- 
Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani at poisson.phc.unipi.it>
Pisa, Italy

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