Bug#917018: wget: Unusable - permanent segmentation fault

[rwpenney]

Hello Bernhard,

I do indeed have a ~/.wget-hsts file, and it has permissions and 
contents that seem suspiciously linked with setup of unprivileged LXC 
containers. If I remove that file, wget seems to work fine. Obviously, 
wget shouldn't just be crashing when it fails to open this file, but at 
least you've given us a good work-around.


Thanks for finding the source of the problem.

Kind regards,

RW Penney

Bug#917018: wget: Unusable - permanent segmentation fault

[rwpenney]

Package: wget
Version: 1.18-5+deb9u2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

In ordinary use cases, 'wget' on Debian-9.6 ("stretch", amd64) is immediately
crashing with a segmentation fault when I try to mirror http or https websites.

A simple case is:
# wget -r -k -l inf http://www.debian.org

I have tried a variety of other URLs, and either http or https protocols.
No error messages are issued other than "Segmentation fault".

Without this basic functionality, "wget" under Debian-9 seems unusable
for http mirroring, which is a key use-case for this package.

Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages wget depends on:
ii  libc62.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libgnutls30  3.5.8-5+deb9u4
ii  libidn11 1.33-1
ii  libnettle6   3.3-1+b2
ii  libpcre3 2:8.39-3
ii  libpsl5  0.17.0-3
ii  libuuid1 2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages wget recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20161130+nmu1+deb9u1

wget suggests no packages.

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