Just tested in a bionic i386 VM, and unfortunately neither your build of 4.13.0-17 nor upstream 4.15 make the situation better. I'm still seeing libreoffice base crash when creating a new database, and the crash happens in /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-i386/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so.
Just tested in a bionic i386 VM, and unfortunately neither your build of 4.13.0-17 nor upstream 4.15 make the situation better. I'm still seeing libreoffice base crash when creating a new database, and the crash happens in /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 8-openjdk- i386/jre/ lib/i386/ server/ libjvm. so.