Comment 7 for bug 152362

Mine didn't crash, but it did generate SIGSEGV errors that saved in my home directory. I am attaching one that I think was generated when looking at http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

Anyway, a local build managed by APT and dpkg fixed it for me:

sudo apt-get build-dep icedtea-java7-plugin
sudo apt-get -b source icedtea-java7-plugin icedtea-java7-bin icedtea-java7-jre icedtea-java7-jdk
sudo dpkg -i icedtea-java7-*deb

--Matthew