Bug 165665 - Searching for white space in Impress can crash the program
Summary: Searching for white space in Impress can crash the program
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.7.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Find-Search
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Reported: 2025-03-10 09:10 UTC by mavavilj
Modified: 2025-11-25 15:25 UTC (History)
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Description mavavilj 2025-03-10 09:10:48 UTC
Description:
I've noticed that with a big or complex enough presentation the program might crash if one searches for white space such as ' ' from the whole document (using Find All).

I have not been able to produce a crashing example presentation, but a presentation I was making for university did have this problem. I cannot use it for demonstration of the bug though.

I would therefore also welcome people to seek this sort of bug. It's likely about running out of memory and crashing, but it could be about something more and it could be about more than just searches within text elements (e.g. if the presentation has pictures etc.).

It's evident that searching for ' ' seems far more intensive than searching for any single character like 'a' or 'r'. I do not understand why, but a possible explanation could be that it finds ' ' from pictures or something else too.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have some certain type of complex presentation of e.g. 30 slides at least
2. Ctrl+f and type one space in the search box (the character ' '), then Find All (from the entire document)
3. The program stops responding and will not return unless one force quits it

Actual Results:
The program stops responding and will not return unless one force quits it.

Expected Results:
The program displays an "out of memory" error and/or stops the search, if the search is too intensive or crashes for some other reason.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
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Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2025-03-10 14:10:56 UTC
Can't duplicate a crash myself searching a complex ODF Presentation (.ODP) document.

But I guess an argument for fully implementing more robust ICU regex for sd Impress and Draw modules (bug 122785), to supplement the current limited Find & Replace support in sd.
Comment 2 mavavilj 2025-03-12 09:51:09 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> Can't duplicate a crash myself searching a complex ODF Presentation (.ODP)
> document.
> 
> But I guess an argument for fully implementing more robust ICU regex for sd
> Impress and Draw modules (bug 122785), to supplement the current limited
> Find & Replace support in sd.

I might try modifying the presentation I have so that I could replicate the problem while not sharing the presentation contents.
Comment 3 Brandon H. 2025-03-20 23:55:40 UTC
I am unable to reproduce a crash as well.

Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7b9e27da2033192c628b23e4e1686209e951dadb
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2025-03-24 16:58:56 UTC
(In reply to mavavilj from comment #2)
> (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> > Can't duplicate a crash myself searching a complex ODF Presentation (.ODP)
> > document.
> > 
> > But I guess an argument for fully implementing more robust ICU regex for sd
> > Impress and Draw modules (bug 122785), to supplement the current limited
> > Find & Replace support in sd.
> 
> I might try modifying the presentation I have so that I could replicate the
> problem while not sharing the presentation contents.

Let's set to needinfo while we wait for the file.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2025-11-25 15:25:16 UTC
Dear mavavilj,

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6 months. Please provide the requested information as soon as
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