In late May 2020, we were asked to help triage the root cause of a bug where an image, when parsed by Android SystemUI, caused the Android process to crash. This could cause a boot loop if, for example, the image was set as the phone’s background. We quickly identified the root cause which we found interesting from an ecosystem perspective. This blog shares parts of our analysis, and covers our trace of the relevant code path and diagnosis of the root cause. We describe how the fixes work, ...
