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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-29019

Svg opening susceptible to a billion laughs

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P2: Important
    • 4.8.6
    • 4.8.2
    • SVG Support, XML: DOM
    • None
    • Debian 7.0
    • cecceb0cdd87482124a73ecf537f3445d68be13e

    Description

      When opening the prepared svg [1] several gigs of memory get allocated until the program crashes.
      This was detected in Kolourpaint [2] and according to it's developers is a problem in qt.

      [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs
      [2]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312912

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            mitch_curtis Mitch Curtis
            stud4 Johannes Höhn
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