Package: emacs21
Version: 21.4a+1-3
Severity: critical

The spam email appended below causes emacs to crash with 

   *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x08706488 ***
   Fatal error (6).

or even simply with

   Fatal error (11).Segmentation fault

To reproduce:

start emacs with emacs -q --no-site-file
inside emacs, evaluate 

   (setq load-path (nconc load-path (list "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/vm")))
   (autoload 'vm-mode "vm" "Run VM major mode on a buffer" t)

then visit the file spam-bug
do M-x vm-mode  
--everything fine up to here--
hit space

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii  emacs21-bin-common        21.4a+1-3      The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii  libc6                     2.3.6.ds1-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libice6                   1:1.0.1-2      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-13          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5               5.5-5          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                    1:1.0.1-3      X11 Session Management library
ii  libtiff4                  3.8.2-7        Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libungif4g                4.1.4-4        shared library for GIF images
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-4      X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.1-2      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxmu6                   1:1.0.2-2      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                   1:3.5.5-2      X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.2-2      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xaw3dg                    1.5+E-14       Xaw3d widget set
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-13     compression library - runtime

emacs21 recommends no packages.


Package: vm
Version: 7.19-11

Versions of packages vm depends on:
ii  emacs21                       21.4a+1-3  The GNU Emacs editor
ii  ucf                           2.0018.1   Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages vm recommends:
ii  make                          3.81-2     The GNU version of the "make" util


-- no debconf information

Here is the problematic spam:

Attachment: spam-bug
Description: Binary data

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