[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Segmentation Fault when opening JSON file with terminal colors (Linux) (#1768)

[elextr]

> even valid JSON inputs could cause stack overflow how it is now, IIUC.

Yep, the JSON language is defined recursive, so it will take growing memory to parse, either stack or heap so at some point its gonna run out.  Unfortunately current OSes don't make it easy to find out when you are about to run out.

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