With fresly rebuild repository this sequence crashes fossil:

c:\soft\msys\home\user\fossil>fossil ver
This is fossil version [f105bc17a0] 2010-11-26 18:43:22 UTC

c:\soft\msys\home\user\fossil>fossil sqlite3
SQLite version 3.7.4
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
sqlite> select * from blob where uuid='2e68abae2f7da03c7418cfe4eedc11c484fbee82'
;
9935|622|2886|2e68abae2f7da03c7418cfe4eedc11c484fbee82|
sqlite> select content('2e68abae2f7da03c7418cfe4eedc11c484fbee82');
c:\soft\msys\home\user\fossil\fossil.exe: out of memory
SELECT 0 FROM blob WHERE uuid='2e68abae2f7da03c7418cfe4eedc11c484fbee82'

If you have recently updated your fossil executable, you might
need to run "fossil all rebuild" to bring the repository
schemas up to date.