[CentOS] C6 Firefox 45.1 segmentation faults

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

> Well, that update is critical for security, so I would try to help find
> the issues (we can feed back to RH and help them fix) .. rather than
> using something with critical security issues to browse the web.
>
> Some things that can help here:
>
> 1.  A site where you always get a crash.
>
> 2.  If you also have access to RHEL-6, test the firefox from RHEL-6 on
> the same site to verify if this is a RHEL or CentOS issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes

I see the same crash on my RHEL-6 box. This one causes the crash consistently:

https://twitter.com/motcho_tw/status/724960561302102016
(it's the official emblem of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics)

Yes, ffmpeg (or ffmpeg-libs) seems to be involved. More particularly,
according to:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246467

a newer version of libavcodec might fix the issue. PUIAS (springdale)
seems to provide it for EL6 but this has yet to be confirmed.

Akemi