Drawing strings with 254 glyphs in any application using the libXrender library caused the application to become unresponsive

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Issue

  • Drawing strings with 254 glyphs in any application using the libXrender library caused the application to become unresponsive
  • libXrender.so bug causes Java 7 application to hang when 254 characters are rendered

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7

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