ORB crashes on specific image.... how do I handle this correctly?

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My code:

#0rb test
img=cv2.imread("training_data/positives/img3348.jpg",0)
print img,type(img),img.shape,type(img[0][0])

OrbParams={"nfeatures":500,"scaleFactor":1.5,"nlevels":8,"edgeThreshold":31,"firstLevel":0,"WTA_K":2,
"scoreType":0,"patchSize":31}
ShinyMysteriousOrb=cv2.ORB(**OrbParams)

print ShinyMysteriousOrb.detectAndCompute(img,None)

Now this works fine for most images, but there is a specific one which triggers inconsistent behaviour.... Infrequently it works, mostly it crashes with either of the following errors:

• python: malloc.c:3637: _int_malloc: Assertion `(unsigned long)(size) >= (unsigned long)(nb)' failed. Aborted (core dumped)
• Segmentation fault (core dumped)
• * Error in `/usr/bin/python': corrupted double-linked list: 0x0000000004814ed0 *

On that last one there are three *'s on either side... but opencv answers interprets two of these as bold. Also note that with the third error the console hangs and won't release control back to me i have to control z it.

Console vomit:

jonathan@jonathan-laptop:
[[0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 ..., 
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]] <type 'numpy.ndarray'> (240, 320) <type 'numpy.uint8'>
*** Error in `/usr/bin/python': corrupted double-linked list: 0x0000000004814ed0 ***
jonathan@jonathan-laptop:
[[0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 ..., 
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]] <type 'numpy.ndarray'> (240, 320) <type 'numpy.uint8'>
jonathan@jonathan-laptop:
[[0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 ..., 
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]
 [0 0 0 ..., 0 0 0]] <type 'numpy.ndarray'> (240, 320) <type 'numpy.uint8'>
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