#797524 <video> element in RSS crashes Akregator

Package:
akregator
Source:
akregator
Description:
RSS/Atom feed aggregator
Submitter:
Ben Hutchings
Date:
2015-08-31 10:39:06 UTC
Severity:
important
#797524#5
Date:
2015-08-31 10:34:06 UTC
From:
To:
Some recent upgrades have caused Akregator to crash when viewing any
RSS entry with a <video> element.  I confirmed that video is the issue
by copying one such entry to a local file and progressively reducing
the description down to:

     <description><video/></description>

which would still trigger a crash.

As Akregator hasn't changed recently it probably isn't at fault, but I
don't understand the KDE packages well enough to guess which of its
dependencies is.  I also couldn't find any recent upgrades to its
immediate dependencies so I'm mystified.  I'm hoping you can reproduce
this and work out from the backtrace what's to blame.

Ben.