Bug 1294963

Summary: [ESR45] firefox crashing due to plugin-container segfault
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Deepu K S <dkochuka>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 7.1CC: dkochuka, stransky
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Last Closed: 2016-05-12 10:31:00 UTC Type: Bug
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[abrt] firefox-38.4.0-1.el7_1: plugin-container killed by SIGSEGV
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Installed RPMS on system
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[abrt] firefox-38.3.0-2.el7_1: plugin-container killed by SIGSEGV none

Description Deepu K S 2015-12-31 10:25:32 UTC
Description of problem:

[abrt] firefox-38.4.0-1.el7_1: plugin-container killed by SIGSEGV

Firefox is crashing due to segfault in plugin-container. This has happened once with java plugin (libnpjp2.so) as well as flash plugin (libflashplayer.so) 

Core was generated by `/usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so -'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  mozalloc_abort (
    msg=msg@entry=0x7f84b713048c "[NPAPI 426] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-38.3.0/mozilla-esr38/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1584") at /usr/src/debug/firefox-38.3.0/mozilla-esr38/memory/mozalloc/mozalloc_abort.cpp:37
37	    MOZ_CRASH();


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
firefox-38.4.0-1.el7_1.x86_64

How reproducible:
Mostly.

Steps to Reproduce:
No exact reproducer. It happens when accessing some websites, mostly when plugins are in use.

Actual results:
plugin-container segfault.

Expected results:
plugin-container shouldn't crash.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Deepu K S 2015-12-31 11:29:32 UTC
Created attachment 1110741 [details]
[abrt] firefox-38.4.0-1.el7_1: plugin-container killed by SIGSEGV

cmdline:        /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-oracle-1.7.0.91-1jpp.1.el7_1.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so -greomni /usr/lib64/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 30320 plugin

# md5sum coredump 
6a3742499be04552a0f64a835f3ae2db  coredump

Comment 3 Deepu K S 2015-12-31 11:32:52 UTC
Created attachment 1110742 [details]
Installed RPMS on system

Comment 4 Deepu K S 2015-12-31 11:35:00 UTC
Created attachment 1110743 [details]
[abrt] firefox-38.3.0-2.el7_1: plugin-container killed by SIGSEGV

cmdline:        /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib64/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 16054 plugin

# md5sum coredump 
314796f376c3e7b059822496d387e2ad  coredump

Comment 6 Martin Stransky 2016-02-26 14:33:47 UTC
That should be fixed by update to ESR45 which contains a fix for that. Let's wait until ESR45 is out and then retest.

Comment 12 Martin Stransky 2016-05-12 10:31:00 UTC
should be fixed now - please reopen if not.