gedit crash erases all data in open files
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gedit (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Dmesg: gedit[3263]: segfault at 0 ip b6c0b06b sp bfb143ac error 4 in libglib-
What I expected to happen: Gedit crashed, and I expected to be able to open my saved files and resume working after the crash
What happened instead: Gedit somehow overwrote the saved files with blank data. One file's hidden backup was deleted in the process, somehow. I was able to restore a recent version from the other file's hidden backup copy.
More information:
I had two saved files open as tabs in a single gedit window. I copied a paragraph from the first tab, and opened up a saved LibreOffice Writer document. Upon trying to paste the paragraph data I had copied from gedit into libreoffice writer, gedit crashed. Ubuntu prompt asked me whether I wanted to restart gedit, and i confirmed. Gedit reopened the saved files as completely blank documents.
I am checking the box for security vulnerability because it might be something someone could exploit to force unauthorized loss of data.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gedit 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-60-
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 23 21:14:03 2014
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.