It's fixed in GNU's CVS already, but id-utils is without a maintainer so I guess that's why, despite the bug fix being in 1999, it hasn't made it into a new release. Perhaps Debian can include some of the patches?
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/idutils/idutils/libidu/scanners.c.diff?r1=1.7&r2=1.8
It's fixed in GNU's CVS already, but id-utils is without a maintainer so
I guess that's why, despite the bug fix being in 1999, it hasn't made it
into a new release. Perhaps Debian can include some of the patches?
http:// savannah. gnu.org/ cgi-bin/ viewcvs/ idutils/ idutils/ libidu/ scanners. c.diff? r1=1.7& r2=1.8