[issue36819] Crash during encoding using UTF-16/32 and custom error handler

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

On 29.09.2021 10:41, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
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> Restricting the returned position to be strictly larger than start would solve the problem with infinite loop and OOM. But this is a different issue.

Yes, this would make sense, since having the codec process
the same error location over and over again will not resolve the
error, so it's clearly a bug in the error handler.

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