Bug in cvExtractSURF() (Bug #373)

Whenever I increase the hessian threshold to somewhere around 3000(for images that have low illumination), I get an error like this:

OpenCV Error: Incorrect size of input array (Non-positive width or
height) in cvCreateMatHeader, file
/home/subh/Downloads/OpenCV-2.1.0/src/cxcore/cxarray.cpp, line 113
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cv::Exception'
what(): /home/subh/Downloads/OpenCV-2.1.0/src/cxcore/cxarray.cpp:113:
error: (-201) Non-positive width or height in function
cvCreateMatHeader

The images are a little dark but features(corners) are clearly
visible. I was wondering if we can handle this exception from inside the function (may be by returning 0 for successful calls and -1 for such failed cases).

Please also find attached the GDB backtrace of the call stack.

(gdb) bt
#0 0x0012d422 in kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0x00a574d1 in *+GI_raise (sig=6) at
../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
#2 0x00a5a932 in *+GI_abort () at abort.c:92
#3 0x009b34df in +gnu_cxx::+verbose_terminate_handler() () from
/usr/lib/libstdc+.so.6
#4 0x009b1415 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#5 0x009b1452 in std::terminate() () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#6 0x009b1591 in cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc+.so.6
#7 0x006f1ca3 in cv::error(cv::Exception const&) () from
/usr/local/lib/libcxcore.so.2.1
#8 0x007c6fd4 in cvCreateMatHeader () from /usr/local/lib/libcxcore.so.2.1
#9 0x007d3392 in cvCreateMat () from /usr/local/lib/libcxcore.so.2.1
#10 0x003e37f1 in cv::SURFInvoker::operator()(cv::BlockedRange const&)
const () from /usr/local/lib/libcv.so.2.1
#11 0x003e549f in cvExtractSURF () from /usr/local/lib/libcv.so.2.1