Buffer Overflow/Memory Error in Spotify

[swankysox]

I'm no security expert, but I received this crash error randomly while using spotify. It wasn't even playing any music. I wanted to share this incase it is important, and spotify support sent me here.

Nov 16 17:22:48 dish-washer spotify-launcher[2645]: *** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
Nov 16 17:22:48 dish-washer systemd-coredump[2890]: Process 2645 (spotify) of user 1000 terminated abnormally with signal 6/ABRT, processing...
Nov 16 17:22:48 dish-washer systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/systemd-coredump.
Nov 16 17:22:48 dish-washer systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 2890/UID 0).
Nov 16 17:22:48 dish-washer systemd-coredump[2891]: [🡕] Process 2645 (spotify) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                    
                                                   Stack trace of thread 2645:
                                                   #0  0x00007e506537b65b pthread_kill (libc.so.6 + 0xa165b)
                                                   #1  0x00007e506531c0a8 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x420a8)
                                                   #2  0x00007e50652fe47b abort (libc.so.6 + 0x2447b)
                                                   #3  0x00007e50652ff4bc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x254bc)
                                                   #4  0x00007e5065409d4b __fortify_fail (libc.so.6 + 0x12fd4b)
                                                   #5  0x00007e506540ae16 __stack_chk_fail (libc.so.6 + 0x130e16)
                                                   #6  0x00005761f4d49d7d n/a (/home/cal/.local/share/spotify-launcher/install/usr/share/spotify/spotify + 0xd58d7d)
                                                   ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Nov 16 17:22:48 dish-washer systemd[1]:**bleep**: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 16 17:22:48 dish-washer systemd[1]:**bleep**: Consumed 208ms CPU time, 137.8M memory peak.

[ribezaz]

Hey!

Thank you for arriving. Does this happen on multiple devices or just a specific one? If only one, which device is affected? Consider clearing all caches and cookies, particularly the one related to Spotify, and try again to see if the problem persists.

Keep me updated.

Cheers,
ribezaz

[danky42 · Accepted solution]

Latest spotify linux client is not working in latest ubuntu 24.10 (deb install).

The system detect a stack smashing bug in spotify client and it closes the internal threads that caused the bug.

/usr/bin/spotify
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated

This should be fixed by spotify developers.

[vilewired]

Also happening for me on Arch Linux Spotify - 1:1.2.50.335-1 in the AUR. Either doesn't load anything "shows a blank grey page" or loads something that goes away once you click it (e.g. login page). Keeps on printing "*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated" in the terminal. There is a buffer overflow error somewhere and nobody is fixing it..

[swankysox]

Sounds good, I was on Arch linux myself, so it might just be a general linux bug.

[Kommbek]

I got this:

type: crash
flags: dev options enabled
package: com.spotify.music:128978383, targetSdk 35
osVersion: google/shiba/shiba:15/BP1A.250505.005.B1/2025061600:user/release-keys
uid: 10156 (u:r:untrusted_app:s0:c156,c256,c512,c768)
cmdline: com.spotify.music
processUptime: 14095s

signal: 11 (SIGSEGV), code 9 (SEGV_MTESERR), faultAddr 300d190f91b71a8
threadName: Core Thread
MTE: enabled

backtrace:
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    /data/app/~~dE9WunhnT8ecH_Zq0MKU3g==/com.spotify.music-qcf2nSxfjjhX72sv-kpcow==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk (pc 9c0f00)
    /data/app/~~dE9WunhnT8ecH_Zq0MKU3g==/com.spotify.music-qcf2nSxfjjhX72sv-kpcow==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk (pc 9c0a8c)
    /data/app/~~dE9WunhnT8ecH_Zq0MKU3g==/com.spotify.music-qcf2nSxfjjhX72sv-kpcow==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk (pc c45738)
    /data/app/~~dE9WunhnT8ecH_Zq0MKU3g==/com.spotify.music-qcf2nSxfjjhX72sv-kpcow==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk (pc 995108)
    /data/app/~~dE9WunhnT8ecH_Zq0MKU3g==/com.spotify.music-qcf2nSxfjjhX72sv-kpcow==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk (pc c4c578)
    /data/app/~~dE9WunhnT8ecH_Zq0MKU3g==/com.spotify.music-qcf2nSxfjjhX72sv-kpcow==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk (pc 995108)
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    /data/app/~~dE9WunhnT8ecH_Zq0MKU3g==/com.spotify.music-qcf2nSxfjjhX72sv-kpcow==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk (pc 12506a0)
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    /data/app/~~dE9WunhnT8ecH_Zq0MKU3g==/com.spotify.music-qcf2nSxfjjhX72sv-kpcow==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk (pc 1224c24)
    /data/app/~~dE9WunhnT8ecH_Zq0MKU3g==/com.spotify.music-qcf2nSxfjjhX72sv-kpcow==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk (pc 1224c50)
    /data/app/~~dE9WunhnT8ecH_Zq0MKU3g==/com.spotify.music-qcf2nSxfjjhX72sv-kpcow==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk (pc 1226f04)
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