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.
** Information type changed from Private Security to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1296517 Title: gedit crash erases all data in open files Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Dmesg: gedit[3263]: segfault at 0 ip b6c0b06b sp bfb143ac error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3200.4[b6b9a000+f7000] 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 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-60.62-lowlatency-pae 3.2.55 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-60-lowlatency-pae i686 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) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1296517/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
