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  1. Bug #1391857
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Comment 3 for bug 1391857

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Marc Balmer (marc-wz6bkyh) wrote : Re: [Bug 1391857] libcairo segfaults when rendering video streams, e.g. youtube videos in webkit base browsers

> Am 12.11.2014 um 13:50 schrieb Marc Balmer <email address hidden>:
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>> Am 12.11.2014 um 13:40 schrieb Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>:
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>> Thanks, the corresponding upstream commit seem to be
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=13a09526d2120c244471e03b6ae979016ef88e83
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=a5f51588afd9d5629b03297eb29ff46350b6ba50
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>> Does it impact any Ubuntu package? If we SRU the fix it should ideally
>> fix a bug reported in launchpad and easy to reproduce so the fix can be
>> confirmed to work
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> Yes it does affect Ubuntu packages, e.g. libwebkitgtk-1.0 uses libcairo when rendering video stream and crashes. Applications that use libwebkitgtk-1.0 consequently also crash.

The package midori is also affected. Install midori and use the midori browser to view a video on youtube, it will crash e.g. on this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A>