incomplete table in org-mode to rst conversion can result into a out of memory system crash!

[mohsenBanan]

Command line used is:

pandoc --from=org -s -t rst --toc ./_description.org -o ./README.rst

A minimal ./_description.org input file is:

#+title: bisos.capability: BISOS Capabilities Bundles -- Abstraction, Specification and Materialization

• Realted Resources

| bisos Capabilities Panel | file:/panels/capabilities/nodeBase/fullUsagePanel-en.org |
|

Notice the ill formed incomplete org-mode table.

OS is:

uname -a
Linux HS-22 6.1.0-26-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.112-1 (2024-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 12

pandoc --version
pandoc 2.17.1.1
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.22.2.1, texmath 0.12.4, skylighting 0.12.3.1,
citeproc 0.6.0.1, ipynb 0.2

I realize that this is NOT the latest version of pandoc. But it is the latest version on Debian 12. And that is important.

The PROBLEM is quite serious.

pandoc consumes all the memory.

I would then see the following in dmesg:
Out of memory: Killed process 693343 (pandoc) total-vm:1074154104kB, anon-rss:18134564kB, file-rss:952kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:2001 pgtables:35824kB oom_score_adj:100

Often it results in a kernel panic. Sometime I see
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at
in dmesg.