Bug#920247: Opening an .xls file with (a) frozen column(s) in it results in soffice.bin using 100% CPU and steadily devouring RAM.

[Gennadiy Starostin]

Package: libreoffice
Version: 1:6.1.4-4






Best regards and thank you.

When opening an .xls file which contains a frozen column(s) in it, the soffice.bin process uses 100% CPU and steadily devours RAM (i.e. up to 85-100%) and thus the system becomes "unusable". If to open such file with the "--view" option, it opens just fine and switching to "edit document" afterwards works Ok. I am using 4.19.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.12-1 (2018-12-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux

frozen_columns.xls
Description: MS-Excel spreadsheet