gnome-software crashed with SIGSEGV in _IO_vfprintf_internal()

[joshiss]

the error occurred while opening the

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-software 3.26.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-11.12-generic 4.13.1
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Sep 23 11:14:39 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-software
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-07 (564 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
InstalledPlugins:
 gnome-software-plugin-flatpak N/A
 gnome-software-plugin-limba N/A
 gnome-software-plugin-snap 3.26.0-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f8c4e12b3e6 <__strlen_sse2+38>: movdqu (%rax),%xmm4
 PC (0x7f8c4e12b3e6) ok
 source "(%rax)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm4" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-software
StacktraceTop:
 _IO_vfprintf_internal (s=s@entry=0x7ffff55e0300, format=<optimized out>, format@entry=0x5620d7a6d788 "Don't know how to handle ‘%s’", ap=ap@entry=0x7ffff55e0470) at vfprintf.c:1643
 __GI___vasprintf_chk (result_ptr=0x7ffff55e0450, flags=1, format=0x5620d7a6d788 "Don't know how to handle ‘%s’", args=0x7ffff55e0470) at vasprintf_chk.c:66
 g_vasprintf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_strdup_vprintf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_strdup_printf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-software crashed with SIGSEGV in _IO_vfprintf_internal()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-09-14 (8 days ago)
UserGroups: adm lpadmin sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 _IO_vfprintf_internal (s=s@entry=0x7ffff55e0300, format=<optimized out>, format@entry=0x5620d7a6d788 "Don't know how to handle \342\200\230%s\342\200\231", ap=ap@entry=0x7ffff55e0470) at vfprintf.c:1643
 __GI___vasprintf_chk (result_ptr=result_ptr@entry=0x7ffff55e0450, flags=flags@entry=1, format=0x5620d7a6d788 "Don't know how to handle \342\200\230%s\342\200\231", format@entry=0x7ffff55e0450 "", args=0x7ffff55e0470) at vasprintf_chk.c:66
 vasprintf (__ap=<optimized out>, __fmt=<optimized out>, __ptr=0x7ffff55e0450) at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/stdio2.h:210
 g_vasprintf (string=string@entry=0x7ffff55e0450, format=<optimized out>, args=args@entry=0x7ffff55e0470) at ../../../../glib/gprintf.c:316
 g_strdup_vprintf (format=<optimized out>, args=args@entry=0x7ffff55e0470) at ../../../../glib/gstrfuncs.c:514

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.