I guess, I have an explanation for the bug and why it is emerging again
now and then.

...
The memory location 0x80(%rdi) is written only once, that revealed that the 
libpoppler GlobalParams class constructor did not write it. In fact, the 
constructor is never called. Instead of that, the xpdf program brings an own 
and divergent version of the GlobalParams class, handling that over to 
libpoppler. Comparing the different definitions (xpdf/GlobalParams.h and 
poppler/GlobalParams.h) reveals, that xpdf class definition will copy boolean 
configuration values to that location, used by libpoppler to store 
textEncoding. 
...

See http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2012/XpdfCrashAnalysisUbuntuPrecise/
for full analysis.

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  xpdf.real crashed with SIGSEGV in GooHash::hash()

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