Regression: Winrar fails to start

[Dustin Navea]

Yes, we are talking about the same thing, it is due to a bug in X that 
was fixed.  The X fix broke wine, causing that error to come up, so we 
are now trying to figure out how to get around it or get X fixed without 
breaking wine.

Christian Lachner wrote:
> Hmm, i thought you were talking about the BadAlloc-Problem and i noticed 
> that audiograbber does not start because of that. Did i misunderstand 
> something? I'm not a dev so i don't understand your fix...
> 
> ciao chris
> 
> On 11/9/05, *Marcus Meissner* <meissner at suse.de 
> <mailto:meissner at suse.de>> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 04:24:43PM +0100, Christian Lachner wrote:
>      > Also got that Problem with Audiograbber... Other programs are
>     surely also
>      > affected by this problem
>      >
>      > On 11/9/05, Dustin Navea < speeddymon at gmail.com
>     <mailto:speeddymon at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > >
>      > > Can I get someone to take a look at
>      > > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3573
>     <http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3573> ? This seems to affect
>     only
>      > > users of Xorg, and it seems to affect all of them, in multiple
>      > > different programs..
> 
>     How is Audiograbber affected?
> 
>     The problem is a X11 security fix, which disallows
>     width or height of Pixmaps to be > 32768.
> 
>     The goal of the original security fix is to avoid integer overflows
>     in multiplication of width and height.
> 
>     (The fix is in the lines of:
>             if ((width > 32768) || (height > 32768=))
>                     Error();
>     )
> 
>     I already mail xorg_security at x.org <mailto:xorg_security at x.org> with
>     this problem ...
> 
>     Should I put effort in to get it fixed better?
> 
>     Ciao, Marcus
> 
> 
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