egrep crashed with SIGSEGV in re_compile_pattern()

[Richard Corner]

Binary package hint: grep

From apport

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu8
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-1ubuntu8
 libpcre3 7.6-2.1ubuntu1
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
 libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu6
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /bin/egrep
Package: grep 2.5.3~dfsg-5ubuntu2
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: egrep ^[^#]*LC_ALL= /etc/default/locale
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: grep
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 re_compile_pattern () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: egrep crashed with SIGSEGV in re_compile_pattern()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic i686
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:transit_state_bkref () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
re_compile_pattern () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
compile ()
main ()