What is the nature of the file? Is it 100s/1000s of commas? 10k lines? Lots of quotes/escapes?

Perhaps you can write a simple file generator that will create a file resembling the one which crashes, and confirm it crashes with this one also :)

$ pmvers Text::CSV Text::CSV_XS Text::CSV_PP
Text::CSV: 1.21
Text::CSV_XS: 0.80
Text::CSV_PP: 1.29
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