This bug was fixed in the package coreutils - 8.13-3ubuntu3.1
--------------- coreutils (8.13-3ubuntu3.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low
* Backport upstream patches to fix data-loss and free-memory read bugs in 'sort -u' (LP: #1038468). -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:32:58 +0100
This bug was fixed in the package coreutils - 8.13-3ubuntu3.1
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coreutils (8.13-3ubuntu3.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low
* Backport upstream patches to fix data-loss and free-memory read bugs in
'sort -u' (LP: #1038468).
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:32:58 +0100