Replaying a commit led to java.lang.StackOverflowError and node crash

 INFO [main] 2013-10-11 14:50:35,891 CommitLogReplayer.java (line 119) Replaying /ebs/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-2-1377542389560.log
ERROR [MutationStage:18] 2013-10-11 14:50:37,387 CassandraDaemon.java (line 191) Exception in thread Thread[MutationStage:18,5,main]
java.lang.StackOverflowError
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TimeUUIDType.compareTimestampBytes(TimeUUIDType.java:68)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TimeUUIDType.compare(TimeUUIDType.java:57)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TimeUUIDType.compare(TimeUUIDType.java:29)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.AbstractType.compareCollectionMembers(AbstractType.java:229)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.AbstractCompositeType.compare(AbstractCompositeType.java:81)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.AbstractCompositeType.compare(AbstractCompositeType.java:31)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.insertAfter(RangeTombstoneList.java:439)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.insertFrom(RangeTombstoneList.java:405)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.weakInsertFrom(RangeTombstoneList.java:472)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.insertAfter(RangeTombstoneList.java:456)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.insertFrom(RangeTombstoneList.java:405)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.weakInsertFrom(RangeTombstoneList.java:472)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.insertAfter(RangeTombstoneList.java:456)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.insertFrom(RangeTombstoneList.java:405)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.weakInsertFrom(RangeTombstoneList.java:472)

.... etc.... over and over until ....

        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.weakInsertFrom(RangeTombstoneList.java:472)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.insertAfter(RangeTombstoneList.java:456)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.insertFrom(RangeTombstoneList.java:405)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.add(RangeTombstoneList.java:144)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.RangeTombstoneList.addAll(RangeTombstoneList.java:186)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.DeletionInfo.add(DeletionInfo.java:180)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.AtomicSortedColumns.addAllWithSizeDelta(AtomicSortedColumns.java:197)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.AbstractColumnContainer.addAllWithSizeDelta(AbstractColumnContainer.java:99)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable.resolve(Memtable.java:207)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable.put(Memtable.java:170)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.apply(ColumnFamilyStore.java:745)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.apply(Table.java:388)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.apply(Table.java:353)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer$1.runMayThrow(CommitLogReplayer.java:258)
        at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)