Sorry, I should have read all the threat before starting to reply...
Denis Auroux twisted the bytes to say:
Denis> I would tend to agree that you likely ran into an extremely bad case of
Denis> this bug that caused a gigantic shape to be created. (for the memory
Denis> allocation to request 3.5 GB of RAM, I think the shape would have to be
Denis> several billion pixels tall). Perhaps it would make sense as a
temporary
Denis> fix to not let the shape recognizer produce shapes that extend well
Denis> beyond the area containing the strokes that were recognized and abort
Denis> the shape recognition if that is what the algorithm produces (i.e., if
I
Denis> can't fix the underlying bug, at least avoid the rare cases where it
Denis> causes a crash).
One solution, Denis, would be to check the allocations. Currently none
of them if checked in case of an error (xo-shapes.c). Then the
allocation can be easily tamed for very large requests and simply return
with no collateral damage.
Denis> Denis
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