260735 - Crash when viewing a particular email message

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Jake Metherell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

I have attached a sample HTML message which causes a crash when it is viewed -
either automatically in the preview pane or when this is switched off, by double
clicking on the message.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the eml message file that I have attached by File...Open saved message..
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird opens the message display window very briefly before crashing and
exiting. It appears as though the problem occurs during the parsing or rendering
of the message.


Expected Results:  
Rendered the message without crashing.

Problem experienced with Thuderbird version 0.8 (20040913)

Comment 1

[Jake Metherell]

Attachment: HTML message causing crash

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

That message is pretty crufty, but it does render without problems for me with 
TB 0.8, Win2K.  

I'm assuming you are viewing the message with View|Message Body As|Original HTML 
set.  Do you get a crash if you change to Simple HTML and then view it?

If you're using TB 0.8, when the message is first loaded (as Original HTML), 
there should be a header bar telling you that images are blocked -- do you see 
that?  Or does it crash before it gets that far?


The four image attachments are actually unused in the message, since the 'src' 
elements of each of the <img> tags in the HTML part is an http: reference (to 
the Web), rather than a cid: reference to the message source.

The <img> at the end of the message is a web bug; the URL in that tag's src 
redirects to http://blahblahblah/Pixel.gif, and the image is not visible in the 
message.  The fifth attachment proves to be the same thing, once renamed to 
pixel.gif and opened.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Did you reproduce this, David?

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

worked fine for me with a trunk build...

Comment 5

[Jake Metherell]

The problem was occuring with View|Message Body As|Original HTML set, but I have
since tried with Simple HTML and Plain Text with the same results - which
presumably indicates that the problem is with the the parsing of the message
rather than the rendering.
The message window that is opened doesn't appear to show the "blocked images"
bar before the crash, but it does disappear very quickly so it is hard to see.
I'll check to see if it still happens with the latest nightly.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Bug 260994 is also about certain messages causing a crash under Linux.

Jake Metherell, is the crash generating Talkback reports?  If so, please post 
the talkback ID here.

Can you port this message to a Mozilla 1.8a build and see if the crash 
reproduces there?

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Jake Metherell, are you still encountering this bug?

Note that bug 223600 has been fixed.

Comment 8

[Jake Metherell]

I have just tried opening the email using version 0.9+ (20041117) and it now
opens correctly.  This problem is now fixed.  Thanks for all your help.

Comment 9

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reopened to fix resolution; Fixed implies a particular patch is known to have 
solved the problem.  I'm not sure this is a dupe, so =>WFM