843570 - Thunderbird crashes when opening specific messages @ mozalloc_abort(char const* const) | NS_DebugBreak_P | nsAString_internal::SetCapacity(unsigned int)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[yode.gps]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130201065344

Steps to reproduce:

Selected an email in my inbox panel.


Actual results:

Thunderbird crashed and the "Thunderbird crash report" window opened.


Expected results:

Viewing the email in the email panel.

Please note that I was able to prevent the crash by setting the "view>message body" to "plain text" whereas "original HTML" and "simple HTML" settings keep the bug repeating.
This only happens with some emails (maybe 1% of what I daily receive). When an email triggers the crash, it will do so 100% times when I try to read it. Emails that do not trigger the crash never do.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

Can you post the crash report ID? It is in help->troubleshooting info->about:crashes

Comment 2

[yode.gps]

Here are the latest crashes I experienced this way :
bp-6d6c297c-2d08-474b-beab-ae6a42130222 22/02/2013 16:05
bp-999f9ace-800e-4eb4-aafc-b12b42130221 21/02/2013 15:08
bp-23da0bf9-a205-4afd-b4b3-93e862130221 21/02/2013 15:03
bp-ef01fa37-1dce-4fab-a9c9-adef02130221 21/02/2013 14:44
bp-76fd00e2-40dd-4576-bf89-1dfe82130221 21/02/2013 14:43
bp-b0ab1cb2-7c6b-44c9-83d2-94a682130221 21/02/2013 14:41
bp-bcdc1777-4b43-4911-9a8f-78c4f2130221 21/02/2013 14:32
bp-a18b0264-3bd3-4cfe-b2d1-90ca32130221 21/02/2013 14:31
bp-f38076d0-4fae-40c8-853d-5cc382130221 21/02/2013 14:27
bp-d42a73ee-db66-4937-90ad-85b622130221 21/02/2013 14:26

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

yode, thanks for the list of crashes.  Can you attach a message which causes crash?

in all cases signature is @ mozalloc_abort(char const* const) | NS_DebugBreak_P | nsAString_internal::SetCapacity(unsigned int) 

perhaps related to bug 837438

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #3)
> yode, Can you attach a message which causes crash?

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

yode seems to be gone.
let's reopen bug when testcase becomes available