IPhoto '11 (9.1.5) crashing when importing certain photos

Question

I'm trying to import several thousand photos from my Windows PC into iPhoto via a network share.  I'm getting a reproducible crash when importing certain photos.  I know which photos they are, and can send them to help track down this issue.
Here's the faulting callstack:
Thread 34 Crashed:: Import thread 0
0   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x98e39e5a __CFCopyFormattingDescription + 26
1   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x98e35392 __CFStringAppendFormatCore + 12258
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x98e3220b CFStringCreateWithFormatAndArguments + 107
3   MetadataLib.dylib                       0x9c68e67a readRawTiffPropsFromPath + 161264
4   MetadataLib.dylib                       0x9c674102 readRawTiffPropsFromPath + 53368
5   MetadataLib.dylib                       0x9c6742e1 readRawTiffPropsFromPath + 53847
6   MetadataLib.dylib                       0x9c666c2c readRawTiffProps + 11836
7   MetadataLib.dylib                       0x9c666c62 readRawTiffProps + 11890
8   MetadataLib.dylib                       0x9c69b572 readRawTiffPropsFromPath + 214248
9   MetadataLib.dylib                       0x9c663c25 readMakerNoteProps + 137
10  com.apple.ImageIO.framework             0x9bbf3733 readProps + 2870
11  com.apple.ImageIO.framework             0x9bbf3489 readProps + 2188
12  com.apple.ImageIO.framework             0x9bc19e8c readTiffPropsFromData + 228
13  com.apple.ImageIO.framework             0x9bbe448c readExifData + 94
14  com.apple.ImageIO.framework             0x9bbe217a initImageJPEG + 4372
15  com.apple.ImageIO.framework             0x9bbe103d _CGImagePluginInitJPEG + 89
16  com.apple.ImageIO.framework             0x9bbe0798 makeImagePlus + 768
17  com.apple.ImageIO.framework             0x9bbeabcf _CGImageSourceGetPropertiesAtIndexInternal + 57
18  com.apple.ImageIO.framework             0x9bbeab63 CGImageSourceCopyPropertiesAtIndex + 134
19  com.apple.iPhoto                        0x0063cc08 0x1000 + 6536200
20  com.apple.iPhoto                        0x0063b461 0x1000 + 6530145
21  com.apple.iPhoto                        0x001497a9 0x1000 + 1345449
22  com.apple.iPhoto                        0x00148cf6 0x1000 + 1342710
23  libsystem_c.dylib                       0x9921eed9 _pthread_start + 335
24  libsystem_c.dylib                       0x992226de thread_start + 34
Any help appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

When I search these forums for "CFCopyFormattingDescription", I find a bunch of crash reports posted that look almost exactly the same as mine.  It appears there's a bug in iPhoto, perhaps when reading metadata from the JPG file (readRawTiffPropsFromPath).
Interestingly, the Preview app can open and display the file just fine.  I even opened the inspector and it showed all of the TIFF and exif metadata just fine, no crash.  The file also opens just fine on Windows.
Now how do we get the attention of the iPhoto development team so I can send them the photos, have them reproduce the crash, and fix it?