synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in vfprintf()

[Svein Tore]

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Program crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: synaptic 0.75.12build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-4.4-generic 3.5.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 21 17:06:40 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcCmdline: synaptic
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:en
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f630af1cdba <vfprintf+10042>: repnz scas %es:(%rdi),%al
 PC (0x7f630af1cdba) ok
 source "%es:(%rdi)" (0x00000001) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%al" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: synaptic
StacktraceTop:
 vfprintf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 __vasprintf_chk () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 g_vasprintf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_strdup_vprintf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_strdup_printf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in vfprintf()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-07-18 (2 days ago)
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