441736 - crash [@ libSystem.B.dylib] on 10.4.11/10.3.9, [@ IOKit.275.0.0] on 10.5.3 involving RealPlayer Plugin

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Plugins Graveyard :: RealPlayer (Real), defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: representative stacks for each OS version

There are a large number of crashes in libSystem.B.dylib on 10.4.11 and 10.3.9 that have "RealPlayer Plugin" as the next frame.  10.5.3 has the same stack tail but with a IOKit frame 0.  Attached are some sample stacks.

I scanned through the URLs last week and was unable to repro any crashes on 10.5/Intel; I'll check 10.3.9/PPC if I get a chance.  Maybe it's PPC-only?

http://www.sr.se/webbradio/?Type=broadcast&Id=1181472&isBlock=0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ (audio player)
http://www.rtve.es/rne/r5/
http://www.kiwari.com/r225/dem_r.asp?G=D2173G0G6G42G7G4G
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/saturdaylive

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

Looks like this should go to Core/Plugins, since it appears to be a problem with the RealPlayer plugin.

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This continues to account for a large percentage of our crashes among 10.4.11 users.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Closing old bugs in the Plugins component. We aren't going to track issues in 3rd-party plugins in the Mozilla bug tracker. In addition, support for NPAPI plugins will be removed at the end of this year; for more details see the post at https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/

If there is a serious bug in Firefox, it needs to be filed in the "Core" product, "Plug-Ins" component.