Running it through strace is interesting...it looks like it's crashing while trying to read from the splash screen PNG file. Here's the last lines leading up to the SIGSEGV.
open("/usr/lib/vmware-vmrc/5.1/bin/../share/pixmaps/plugin-splash.png", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 25
fstat64(25, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=41367, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb2301000
read(25, "\211PNG\r\n\32\n\0\0\0\rIHDR\0\0\2\0\0\0\0018\10\2\0\0\0\242\333\334"..., 4096) = 4096
_llseek(25, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0
read(25, "\211PNG\r\n\32\n\0\0\0\rIHDR\0\0\2\0\0\0\0018\10\2\0\0\0\242\333\334"..., 4096) = 4096
brk(0xb953b000) = 0xb953b000
read(25, "\256\302\347\254\221=\337\374l\2052\v\3\300G\363J\353\342\311\314{R\343\326\6\1\320\27\2137t"..., 4096) = 4096
read(25, "\375\3652\374\200\"\305\231a\276\256\273\re\6\3\203g\257\355\356\372\245\260\23\203\202\364\6\343\"\201"..., 4096) = 4096
read(25, "\30\31Gd\247\f\351\265\367&~\360\3052\0\30{\362\240\236\235\333\10\313\322%\r44\216\4\31"..., 4096) = 4096
read(25, "\271d\222d\203B?e\324 \267\5\1U\20@\222\24\22$\330\333v\351J\0J\201\343$\261v"..., 4096) = 4096
read(25, "\324\223\f\311\"\6\"YY#?(\357\265=\325\312\360\toLWV\226\177\317~\337\215\344\262\253"..., 4096) = 4096
read(25, "\200F\300\207E\201\235\371\270UZ)\231\346\1^>\0v\376|th\264{K@\0\f\363d\267"..., 4096) = 4096
read(25, "\320!\275\374ha\0z\221\351>\352\376jh\34\326\320^@\32\32\32\32G)\264\4\240\241\241\241"..., 4096) = 4096
read(25, "\216\205\255\313*w\1\0002^S\27\277\363\241\27\325\370L~\350\205\216\205\255\1 \353qYK\""..., 4096) = 4096
read(25, "`\312\233\263.=\357D!,\357i\243\207\365-\253\330~\302E\267?\377\346\314K\317;1\22\364"..., 4096) = 4096
read(25, "\26\227\255\245$\2\2\365\\\265\245P\355\341\314 \231\361\256!\27\10\210\314P9\324\275\323\252\262Q"..., 4096) = 407
close(25) = 0
munmap(0xb2301000, 4096) = 0
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0x4} ---