[ANY23-58] HCardExtractor infinite loop and memory exhaustion

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Component/s: core
• Environment: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11pre) (6b23~pre11-0ubuntu1.11.10.2) on Ubuntu
• Assignee: Michele Mostarda
• Reporter: Hannes Mühleisen
• Created: 19/Mar/12 14:26
• Updated: 25/Jun/12 16:55
• Resolved: 23/Mar/12 14:16

Description

The HCardExtractor creates an infinite loop which will lead to memory exhaustion in the method fixIncludes(), specifically in the line node.appendChild(header.cloneNode(true)); on some HTML files. Attached is a test case and an example HTML file.