Blender Crashing in Nodes

Hello, I’m using Blender 2.78a and just recently had my blender crash for some reason. I have a very simplistic scene, although it should not influence the crash at all. The problem lies with the node editor. For some reason, I cannot open it whatsoever without blender immediately crashing. There is no way for me to fix it without editing the node setup, which I cannot get to. The nodes are pretty advanced, although I’ve used them quite a bit in the past and worked just fine.

I’m wondering if there would be any way for me to edit the nodes without accessing the node editor, or something similar. All other windows are perfectly, the node editor is the only one that crashes.

I am able to render the scene, however, as soon as it turns to compositing, it crashes. I have never experienced this issue before and am wondering if it might be a new bug in Blender.

This looks related https://developer.blender.org/T49857 and based on the report status, yes, there is/was a bug.