dpkg-deb crashed with SIGSEGV in inflate()

[Kevin Sumner]

Binary package hint: dpkg

crashed when installing proprietary ATI driver from repository in 9.10 x64

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 8 05:14:43 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: dpkg 1.15.4ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.10.1-0ubuntu15_amd64.deb
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x41c8c7: mov 0x20(%r14),%edx
 PC (0x0041c8c7) ok
 source "0x20(%r14)" (0x01dc43c0) ok
 destination "%edx" ok
 Reason could not be automatically determined.
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: dpkg
StacktraceTop:
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Title: dpkg-deb crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:inflate ()
gzread ()
decompress_cat (type=<value optimized out>,
extracthalf (debar=<value optimized out>,
main (argc=<value optimized out>,

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog)]

inflate() is not part of dpkg but of zlib. It might be the that the input data was corrupted but zlib should not segfault and instead provide a proper error. This is rather old though and I'm not sure anyone can find something useful in here.

Requesting a newer retrace in case anyone else duplicates it.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version has expired long time ago, and is no more supported