apt-check crashed with signal 7 in strlen()

[Nawaf Alsallami]

Binary package hint: update-notifier

Updating to a new Arabic font package when crash occurred.
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
update-manager:
 installed:1:0.93.4
  filtered: 1:0.93.4
 :
 *** 1:0.93.4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: update-notifier 0.71.1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=ar_EG.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 7
SourcePackage: update-notifier
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 std::string::compare () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
 debPackagesIndex::FindInCache ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.8-6.so.4.6
 pkgMakeStatusCache ()
Title: apt-check crashed with signal 7 in strlen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.26-5-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare