use-after-free in xfdesktop

[Natanael Copa]

On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:23:41 +0200
Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am 27.06.2012 10:00, schrieb Stefan Seyfried:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > for quite some time I saw (due to openSUSE Factory setting
> > MALLOC_CHECK_ and friends) that the tooltips for xfdesktop icons
> > obviously had an use-after-free problem. Today I finally went ahead
> > and fixed it :-)
> > 
> > all the gory details are in
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768985, for
> > completeness I also filed a bug at
> > https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9059
> > 
> > The attached patch fixes the issue for me.
> 
> Is there anything wrong with the patch?
> Is the bug not considered a bug?
> 
> Are my mails not reaching the mailing list?

They are reaching the mailing list. Maybe devs are on vacation?

I will add the patch to alpine-linux.
Thanks for tracking it down!

-nc