Package: klibc-utils
Version: 1.5.10-1
Severity: serious
Tags: d-i

klibc cpio segfaults extracting various cpio files. It seems to work for
small files, but fail for larger ones, including the d-i root floppy
image.

For example:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/empty>wget 
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/20080401-09:01/floppy/root.img
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/empty>zcat root.img | sudo /usr/lib/klibc/bin/cpio -i
zsh: broken pipe         zcat root.img | 
zsh: segmentation fault  sudo /usr/lib/klibc/bin/cpio -i

Or:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin>find . | cpio --quiet -o -H newc >|~/bin.cpio
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin>cd /tmp/empty 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/empty>sudo /usr/lib/klibc/bin/cpio -i < ~/bin.cpio 
zsh: segmentation fault  sudo /usr/lib/klibc/bin/cpio -i < ~/bin.cpio

Version 1.5.9-2 does not have this problem. 

I am not familiar with klibc enough to get a backtrace, but I hope this
can easily be reproduced so you can..


Since this breaks d-i boot floppies, I've marked this RC, to avoid the
broken one getting into testing. (However, d-i builds images using the
version in unstable, so blocking it won't help entirely.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages klibc-utils depends on:
ii  libklibc                      1.5.10-1   minimal libc subset for use with i

klibc-utils recommends no packages.

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