Regression: Winrar fails to start
Dustin Navea
speeddymon at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 11:17:38 CST 2005
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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