209225 - javascript ad in page crashes mozilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 200829

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[hahn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030612

when loading the page, mozilla will display it for a split second and the crash
(SIGSEGV). the problem occurs only when javascript is enabled. i tracked down
the problem to the javascript of the ad that is embedded in the page. i have
attached the offending javascript source, opening it in a browser by itself
crashes it. i have also attached a stacktrace. feel free to contact me for
further information or tests.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make sure javascript is enabled
2. open testcase
3.

Actual Results:  
crash

Expected Results:  
display wonderful spam.

mozilla exits quietly with Exit 11.

i am using Xvnc 3.3.3r2 as X-Server, see http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for
information on VNC.

Comment 1

[hahn]

Attachment: javascript source of testcase

This crashes my browser.

Comment 2

[hahn]

Attachment: stacktrace

stacktrace of mozilla crashing

Comment 3

[hahn]

Attachment: stacktrace

gzipped stacktrace, mime-type was wrong on the first one.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you use a xft/gtk2 Build ?
Can you please provide a talkback ID from that crash ?
(run a talkback enabled build, send the TB crash report and open
Mozilla/components/talkback to get the ID)

Comment 5

[Phil Schwartau]

In the meantime, reassigning to Browser-General. This is not likely
due to a problem in the JavaScript Engine -

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

the javascript source you've attached appears to be mostly screwed up.  Did you
attach the proper file?

Comment 7

[Hermann Schwab]

The article I see has a flash ad (MCI) at the right side.
Heise is one of the biggest newstickers, and they put ads into the articels only
for some minutes, when they are fresh. was the ad in the article, or is it this
MCI flash ad at the right side?
Maybe your flash plugin isn´t installed or working correctly?
Since heise is changing it´s ads often, is the testcase still valid?
Did you look at it with another browser, i.e. konqueror?

Comment 8

[hahn]

It is indeed my flash plugin, which is causing the trouble. It used to work fine
with previous versions of mozilla, but now it even crashes mozilla on
www.macromedia.com. It depends on the color depth of the X-Server.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200829 ***