npviewer.bin crashes with a segmentation fault due to the 32 bit Adobe flash player 10

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Issue

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Issue

  • npviewer.bin crashes with a segmentation fault due to the 32 bit Adobe flash player 10 with the following back trace:

Core was generated by `/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin --plugin /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflas'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0xff999ea8 in ?? ()
(gdb) t a a bt
Thread 1 (Thread 23594):
#0  0xff999ea8 in ?? ()
#1  0xf77c9582 in ?? ()
#2  0xf7dfda28 in ?? ()
...
#35 0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-1.el5.i386
  • nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-8.el5.i386

Resolution

  • Update to flash player 10.1, which is available in the supplementary repository in RHN

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