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man-db package

man crashes with error "double free or corruption"

Bug #694215 reported by Paul Gaborit
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man-db (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: man-db

When calling 'man' with a full path like in :

  % man /usr/bin/man

and quitting (with key 'q') crashes 'man' with this error message :

*** glibc detected *** man: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000001f0a7b0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x774b6)[0x7f37c01f74b6]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x73)[0x7f37c01fdc83]
man[0x40cc25]
man[0x40bec3]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe)[0x7f37c019ed8e]
man[0x403b19]

PS: Ubuntu 10.10 x64, man-db version 2.5.7-4

Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Thanks for your report. This was https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?31633, which I fixed in man-db 2.5.8. The package in Natty shouldn't suffer from this bug.

Changed in man-db (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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