Java application crashes in deploy.dll after calling
com.sun.deploy.security.WIExplorerCertStore.loadCertificates().

Customer is seeing this failure at a frequency of 10-20 %.

Here are three incidents of this:

1.5.0_15-b04
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Stack: [0x06810000,0x06910000), sp=0x0690ec1c, free space=1019k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C [deploy.dll+0x7906]
C [deploy.dll+0x6d01]
C [deploy.dll+0x3698]
[ ... ]

1.5.0_16-b02 on XP SP3 (Intel Pentium4)
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Stack: [0x120f0000,0x121f0000), sp=0x121eeb50, free space=1018k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C [deploy.dll+0x7337]
C [deploy.dll+0x3848]
j com.sun.deploy.security.WIExplorerCertStore.loadCertificates(Ljava/lang/String;[Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/Collection;)V+0
j com.sun.deploy.security.WIExplorerCertStore.load()V+38
j com.sun.deploy.security.TrustDecider.isAllPermissionGranted(Ljava/security/CodeSource;Lcom/sun/deploy/ui/AppInfo;)Z+76
j com.sun.deploy.security.TrustDecider.isAllPermissionGranted(Ljava/security/CodeSource;)Z+8
[ ... ]

1.5.0_16-b02 on XP SP2 (Intel CoreDuo)
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Stack: [0x180a0000,0x181a0000), sp=0x1819e99c, free space=1018k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C 0x6d1f8071
C 0x6d1f7031
C 0x6d1f3848
j com.sun.deploy.security.WIExplorerCertStore.loadCertificates(Ljava/lang/String;[Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/Collection;)V+0
j com.sun.deploy.security.WIExplorerCertStore.load()V+38
j com.sun.deploy.security.TrustDecider.isAllPermissionGranted(Ljava/security/CodeSource;Lcom/sun/deploy/ui/AppInfo;)Z+76
j com.sun.deploy.security.TrustDecider.isAllPermissionGranted(Ljava/security/CodeSource;)Z+8
[ ... ]

Customer reported that turning off "hyperthreading" in the BIOS of Intel Pentium 4
processors helps to lower the frequency of the failure. However the failure still occurs.

Customer also reported that on Intel CoreDuo processors the failiure does occur less
frequently.

Please find two hs_err_pid.log files attached:

hs_err_pid2708.log:CPU:total 2 (cores per cpu 2, threads per core 1) family 6 model 15 [ ... ]
hs_err_pid3220.log:CPU:total 2 (cores per cpu 1, threads per core 2) family 15 model 4 [ ... ]