[Bug 731195] rsvgdec: aborts for specific file when trying to allocate huge video memory

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731195
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-bad | unspecified

--- Comment #16 from Martyn Russell <martyn at lanedo.com> 2014-06-09 11:12:33 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> While I agree gstreamer should be fixed to not crash on this file, I think
> tracker-extract should be made more robust in order to still properly work even
> when the library used for data extraction crashes.

I don't see how?

> In a user data collection, there will always be bugs or malformed files that
> will make those libraries crash.

I am happy to take suggestions here.

The tracker-extract process is separate because there is no real way to do what
you suggest AFAICS. We always expect crashes/issues with tracker-extract
because we can't know how 3rd party libraries will react to content.

We have memory barriers in place right now and other measures too.

Did you have something specific in mind?

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