cccc crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() when starting execution with wildcard

[Thomas A. F. Thorne]

I ran `$ cccc **` in the directory of a C/C++ git work area. A few seconds later I had seen:
$ cccc **
build
cppcheck.xml
Jenkinsfile
Makefile
NOTICE.3rd_party
directory_1
directory_2
directory_3
directory_4
CCCC - a code counter for C and C++
===================================

A program to analyse C and C++ source code and report on
some simple software metrics
Version 3.1.4
Copyright Tim Littlefair, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
with contributions from Bill McLean, Herman Hueni, Lynn Wilson
Peter Bell, Thomas Hieber and Kenneth H. Cox.

The development of this program was heavily dependent on
the Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set (PCCTS)
by Terence Parr, Will Cohen, Hank Dietz, Russel Quoung,
Tom Moog and others.

CCCC comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING in the source
code distribution for details.
Parsing
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
  what(): basic_string::substr: __pos (which is 4294967295) > this->size() (which is 5)
Aborted (core dumped)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: cccc 1:3.1.4-9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-72.93-generic 4.4.49
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-72-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Jul 7 11:36:24 2017
Dependencies:
 gcc-5-base 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4
 gcc-6-base 6.0.1-0ubuntu1
 libc6 2.23-0ubuntu9
 libgcc1 1:6.0.1-0ubuntu1
 libstdc++6 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/cccc
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-12 (847 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
ProcCmdline: cccc build cppcheck.xml Jenkinsfile Makefile NOTICE.3rd_party third_party vtss_api vtss_appl vtss_basics
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: cccc
StacktraceTop:
 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 std::terminate() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 std::__throw_out_of_range_fmt(char const*, ...) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
Title: cccc crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip lpadmin lxd mock plugdev sambashare sudo wireshark

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler () at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/vterminate.cc:95
 __cxxabiv1::__terminate (handler=<optimized out>) at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:47
 std::terminate () at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:57
 __cxxabiv1::__cxa_throw (obj=obj@entry=0x5652dd23b850, tinfo=0x7f0bce6f9ad8 <typeinfo for std::out_of_range>, dest=0x7f0bce427b40 <std::out_of_range::~out_of_range()>) at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_throw.cc:87
 std::__throw_out_of_range_fmt (__fmt=__fmt@entry=0x5652db4c9c00 "%s: __pos (which is %zu) > this->size() (which is %zu)") at ../../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/src/c++11/functexcept.cc:101

[Thomas A. F. Thorne (tafthorne)]

Eyeballed the attachments. Looks safe to make public.

[Tabor Kelly (taborkelly)]

This also affects me running cccc 1:3.1.4-9Ubuntu on 16.04.3 LTS.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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