[gdal-dev] Core dump: old gdal, bug in gdal, bug in data?

[Russell McOrmond]

   I downloaded some ESRI shapefiles from
http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/option/select.do?id=1169
  These are shapefiles which represent the electoral districts of
Canada, for election years 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2008.

  What I'm wondering is if someone with better knowledge of shapefiles
(and maybe a copy of ArcGIS desktop) could download and take a quick
look and see if the problem is in the Shapefile or in GDAL.  I no longer
have access to ArcGIS desktop to check things out.

  My preference is to use the latest, but it seems that ogrinfo will
core dump on 2006 and 2008.  I was wanting to import this data into
PostGIS for use with Mapserver.

In 2000 it was not the same boundaries as they are now (they changed in
2003 -- and will again in 2013).

In 2004 it is the right boundaries, with only the electoral ID as data.
 This worked: ogr2ogr -f KML fed308.2004_a.kml fed308.2004/fed308_a.shp
FED_NUM: Integer (9.0)

In 2006 they added more information, and now ogr tools core dump with a
buffer overflow.
AREA: Real (20.5)
PERIMETER: Real (20.5)
FED308_A_: Real (11.0)
FED308_A_I: Real (11.0)
FED_NUM: Real (11.0)
ED_NAMEE: String (100.0)
ED_NAMEF: String (100.0)

In 2008 they added even more information:
AREA: Real (19.5)
PERIMETER: Real (19.5)
FED_NUM: Integer (9.0)
FED_TYPE: String (4.0)
ED_ID: Integer (7.0)
ED_NAMEE: String (100.0)
ED_NAMEF: String (100.0)
ELCT_CNT: Integer (6.0)
OBJECTID: Integer (10.0)
SHAPE_AREA: Real (19.11)
SHAPE_LEN: Real (19.11)
PARTY_WIN: String (1.0)

I filed the following report, if it is useful.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdal/+bug/459178

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