More examples on https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=81620957#More_image_scaler_problems
They seem to be all TIFFs from BNF, I don't know if it can happen also with non-paged TIFFs and where the problem resides.
Should we just dump metadata? In any case it could fail more gracefully.
Version: master
Severity: normal
URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Audiffret_-_Syst%C3%A8me_financier_de_la_France%2C_tome_2.tif/lossy-page1-443px-Audiffret_-_Syst%C3%A8me_financier_de_la_France%2C_tome_2.tif.jpg
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41361