Hi,
One of our customers is seeing a crash in our Content Filter in our network system extension. We're kind of at a loss for the cause of this as only one specific person is running into this and we're not at all in the stacktrace, out of the hundreds of others deployed with our extension.
It would be greatly appreciated if we could have any help in diagnosing this issue. Attached is the crash report, and below is the crashing stacktrace. If this crash log is not sufficient, I have many more from the customer that I can attatch here.
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Looking through the stack crawl provided a couple of things stand out demangling_terminate_handler(), _dispatch_client_callout, and abort. There's also a call to abort_message so you might be able to find something in other logs. This looks like an unhandled exception in your code. demangling is something you usually see in C++ code. I'd look for unhandled C++ exceptions in your code (or libraries your code is calling).