RViz segfaults upon receiving mesh marker

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I am running RViz and a custom plugin inside of rqt and I am trying to publish an STL mesh marker from my custom plugin and have RViz display it. The following is the message that I send to RViz (captured using rostopic echo)

header: 
  seq: 0
  stamp: 
    secs: 0
    nsecs: 0
  frame_id: /base_link
ns: model_mesh
id: 0
type: 10
action: 0
pose: 
  position: 
    x: 0.0
    y: 0.0
    z: 0.0
  orientation: 
    x: 0.0
    y: 0.0
    z: 0.0
    w: 1.0
scale: 
  x: 1.0
  y: 1.0
  z: 1.0
color: 
  r: 0.0
  g: 1.0
  b: 0.0
  a: 1.0
lifetime: 
  secs: 0
  nsecs: 0
frame_locked: False
points: []
colors: []
text: ''
mesh_resource: file:///home/bid019/models/CAD/exerciseBall.STL
mesh_use_embedded_materials: False

Whenever this message is sent RViz crashes. The following stack trace was obtained from gdb.

#0  0x00007fff9c4b0834 in ogre_tools::STLLoader::load(unsigned char*) () from /opt/ros/indigo/lib/librviz.so
#1  0x00007fff9c4937d8 in rviz::loadMeshFromResource(std::string const&) () from /opt/ros/indigo/lib/librviz.so
#2  0x00007fff8e443134 in rviz::MeshResourceMarker::onNewMessage(boost::shared_ptr<visualization_msgs::Marker_<std::allocator<void> > const> const&, boost::shared_ptr<visualization_msgs::Marker_<std::allocator<void> > const> const&) () from /opt/ros/indigo/lib/libdefault_plugin.so
#3  0x00007fff8e441a2f in rviz::MarkerBase::setMessage(boost::shared_ptr<visualization_msgs::Marker_<std::allocator<void> > const> const&) () from /opt/ros/indigo/lib/libdefault_plugin.so
#4  0x00007fff8e431e9b in rviz::MarkerDisplay::processAdd(boost::shared_ptr<visualization_msgs::Marker_<std::allocator<void> > const> const&) () from /opt/ros/indigo/lib/libdefault_plugin.so
#5  0x00007fff8e432513 in rviz::MarkerDisplay::processMessage(boost::shared_ptr<visualization_msgs::Marker_<std::allocator<void> > const> const&) () from /opt/ros/indigo/lib/libdefault_plugin.so
#6  0x00007fff8e4326bb in rviz::MarkerDisplay::update(float, float) () from /opt/ros/indigo/lib/libdefault_plugin.so
#7  0x00007fff9c467ff2 in rviz::DisplayGroup::update(float, float) () from /opt/ros/indigo/lib/librviz.so
#8  0x00007fff9c50857e in rviz::VisualizationManager::onUpdate() () from /opt/ros/indigo/lib/librviz.so
#9  0x00007ffff276887a in QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, QMetaObject const*, int, void**) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
#10 0x00007ffff276ca31 in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
#11 0x00007ffff0bc7e2c in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4
#12 0x00007ffff0bce4a0 in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4
#13 0x00007ffff1bf2186 in ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so
#14 0x00007ffff27544dd in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
#15 0x00007ffff2784323 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
#16 0x00007ffff2781629 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
#17 0x00007ffff4233e04 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#18 0x00007ffff4234048 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#19 0x00007ffff42340ec in g_main_context_iteration () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0x00007ffff27817a1 in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
#21 0x00007ffff0c69bb6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4
#22 0x00007ffff27530af in QEventLoop::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
#23 0x00007ffff27533a5 in QEventLoop::exec(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr ...