Aptitude crashes when trying to play solitaire (aptitude assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: aptitude terminated)

[Daniel Hahler]

Binary package hint: aptitude

Testcase:
1. "sudo aptitude"
2. Ctrl-T to open the menu
3. Chose "Play Minesweeper"

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** buffer overflow detected ***: aptitude terminated
Date: Mon Mar 29 19:16:34 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude
ProcCmdline: aptitude
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: aptitude
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 *__GI_raise (sig=6)
 *__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
 __libc_message (do_abort=2,
 *__GI___fortify_fail (msg=<value optimized out>)
Title: aptitude assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: aptitude terminated
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