aptitude crashed with SIGSEGV in __fprintf_chk()

[Markus Mueller]

Binary package hint: aptitude

aptitude gets a segmentation fault with every command

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 18 20:01:29 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude
Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined (enforce)
ProcCmdline: aptitude remove amsn
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x5dbbc0 <__fprintf_chk+32>: cmpw $0x0,(%esi)
 PC (0x005dbbc0) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "(%esi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: aptitude
StacktraceTop:
 __fprintf_chk () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 pkgDPkgPM::CloseLog() ()
 pkgDPkgPM::Go(int) ()
 pkgPackageManager::DoInstallPostFork(int) ()
 pkgPackageManager::DoInstall(int) ()
Title: aptitude crashed with SIGSEGV in __fprintf_chk()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic i686
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