Package: coreutils Version: 8.13-3.1ubuntu1 Severity: important Original UBuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug/1038468 Original Upstream bug: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9780
Last year a bug was reported to upstream coreutils [1] about problems on using 'sort -u'. Until recently, there was no known reproducing process; one such process was published last week [2]. Although triggering the bug can be said to be a non-completely trivial use case, data loss in 'sort' should be looked at as a serious issue. Today Jim Meyering committed what looks like the final touches of the fix (incidentally also solving a different issue (a free memory read), also in 'sort'. There are 4 commits affected, and they are shown starting in [3]. Given this is a data loss potential, I am opening this bug for all affected releases (this bug affects Coreutils 8.9 onwards -- Precise and Quantal). I am still to run the tests on Lucid, Natty, and Oneiric. [1] http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9780 [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2012-08/msg00027.html [3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2012-08/msg00057.html -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal-proposed'), (500, 'quantal'), (100, 'quantal-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-10-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.7ubuntu3 ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10ubuntu1 ii libacl1 2.2.51-8ubuntu1 ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-8ubuntu1 ii libc6 2.15-0ubuntu17 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5ubuntu1 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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