Bug#428754: Consume all available memory while opening an XML file

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:15:04PM -0400, Simon Valiquette <v.simon at ieee.org> wrote:
> Package: iceape-browser
> Version: 1.0.9-0etch1
> Severity: normal
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: RIPEMD160
> 
>   If you open this xml file with iceape (localy or from the web), iceape
> will start to use all available memory at over 1MB/s until It crash.
> 
> http://download.wikipedia.org/images/archive/etwiktionary/20060912/etwiktionary-20060912-abstract.xml
> 
>   Note that java and javascript are disabled in my browser, so you won't
> have to search for that.
> 
>   It would be useful if someone with some free time could trim this XML
> file and find a minimal subset that still crash iceape.

I would say the "minimal subset" is what is enough for the DOM
structures for this xml file to fill up all your memory. The crash may
occur because of the OOM killer.

Mike