#602630 bash: free: called with already freed block argument

Package:
bash
Source:
bash
Description:
GNU Bourne Again SHell
Submitter:
Timo Juhani Lindfors
Date:
2010-11-06 17:45:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#602630#5
Date:
2010-11-06 17:41:53 UTC
From:
To:
bash crashed today under kfreebsd-i386:

lindi@debian:~/scm$ su
Password:
root@debian:/home/lindi/scm# apt-get install sudo magit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  magit sudo
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 630 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1061 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main magit all 0.7-1.1 [38.4 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main sudo kfreebsd-i386 1.7.4p4-2 [591 kB]
Fetched 630 kB in 6s (101 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package magit.
(Reading database ... 34675 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking magit (from .../archives/magit_0.7-1.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package sudo.
Unpacking sudo (from .../sudo_1.7.4p4-2_kfreebsd-i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up magit (0.7-1.1) ...
install/magit: Byte-compiling for emacs23
Setting up sudo (1.7.4p4-2) ...
No /etc/sudoers found... creating one for you.
root@debian:/home/lindi/scm# visudo
visudo: /etc/sudoers.tmp unchanged
root@debian:/home/lindi/scm# visudo^C
root@debian:/home/lindi/scm# upd^C
root@debian:/home/lindi/scm# ls -l /et
malloc: unknown:0: assertion botched
free: called with already freed block argument
last command: visudo
Aborting...lindi@debian:~/scm$


Kernel logged only

pid 1595 (bash), uid 0: exited on signal 6

and there was no core* file. Also

debsums | grep -v OK

did not print anything that'd indicate faulty hardware.