115523 - INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Pipe closed during read? ...

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[slice1900]

When visiting the above URL http://areacode-info.com, the browser begins to
build the page, and then crashes and prints the following message on the console:

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Pipe closed during read? State may be corrupt
System error?:: Resource temporarily unavailable

This happens every time.  I tried it with Netscape 4.79, and it worked fine.

Seen under Linux with Mozilla 0.9.6 (build ID 2001112012)

Comment 1

[R.B.]

Confirming on Linux 2001121521, Java plugin 1.3.1_01. Seems to be Java related, no
crash with Java disabled. In the third frame
(http://areacode-info.com/navigate.htm, which by itself usually loads, but is
not functional) Java console gives error java.lang.NullPointerException.

Should be: Component: -> Java-something
           Keywords: -> Crash

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

OJI.  likely a duplicate...

Comment 3

[William hodgert]

This is similar to 113957 

Comment 4

[T'aZ]

still crasching with 2002021721.

Comment 5

[slice1900]

Just to add another data point, since my original posting of this bug I've made
the following changes:

Upgraded from Redhat 6.2 to Redhat 7.2+errata (clean install)
Upgraded from Java 1.3 to Java 1.4
Upgraded from Mozilla 0.9.6 to Mozilla 0.9.8

Still crashing, just like before.

Comment 6

[Denis Antrushin]

Confirming on Linux and Solaris 2.8 with Mozilla 0.9.9+ and
java 1.3.1

Comment 7

[Sergey Lunegov]

I think that the reason of the bug is last param tag of applet
of http://areacode-info.com/navigate.htm. This parameter contains
more than 900 string of characters. I'm going to check whether this
is java plugin bug or this is bug of browser side.

Comment 8

[Sergey Lunegov]

I think this is java plugin bug.
I load the changed http://areacode-info.com/navigate.htm by Netscape
(I changed the 'applet' tag to the 'object' one). Netscape informs
that 'java_vm has died'. When I reduced the last parameter
both browsers worked fine. I filed bug #4657466 in Bugtraq against
java plugin. I propose to close this bug as INVALID.

Comment 9

[Igor Nekrestyanov]

From bugtraq:
=============

 When we read data from the pipe we treate value passed as the length of a sting
 as a signed short instead of an unsigned short.  Thus for long strings we get a
 negative index exception when we try and create the array.

 We can switch to using an unsigned short.  This will fix this particular
 problem, but there will still be an inherent limit on the number of characters
 that a parameter can hold.  The limit would be (2^16)-1 character.
 [e-mail] 2002-03-25

Fix is checked into 1.4.1 sources.

Comment 10

[Patty Mac]

Chris Petersen is a new QA contact for oji component. His email is:
[e-mail]

Comment 11

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixing small error for [e-mail] (filter with : SPAMMAILSUCKS)

Comment 12

[Joshua Xia]

reassign to me

Comment 13

[Pete Zha]

->FIXED per comment 9

Comment 14

[dsirnapalli]

-- Verified in latest trunk build on Linux with JRE1.4.1_02. I am able to load
the page fine without any crash. Marking Verified.