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Hannes,

Thanks for providing the JPEG file.

This is Mantis 7523: Opening some JPEG files may crash Windows VM

Apparently certain (possibly corrupt) JPEG files can crash the Windows
VM, suggesting a problem with error handling in the support code or
external libraries. A file that reliably reproduces the problem is
attached to the Mantis report.

Dave


On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 07:19:30AM +0000, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> I have uploaded the jpg file to http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7523.
> 
> It leads to an immediate crash on MSWindows whereas it displays fine on Ubuntu.
> 
> --Hannes
> 
> On 5/3/10, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 03:50:55PM +0000, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> I have found a 110kB sample jpg file which causes the MSWindows VM to
> >> crash immediately *** whereas it displays the file properly under
> >> Ubuntu.
> >>
> >> I will happily sent the file to anybody interested having a look at
> >> this....
> >
> > Hannes,
> >
> > I opened a Mantis report for this. Can you please upload your sample
> > jpg file here: http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7523
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >