I don't have any personal experience with this bug, but according to
the following post, it was fixed in tar 1.24:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-10/msg00039.html
The patch referenced in that message is just one line, and can be found
at:
Package: tar
Version: 1.23-3
Severity: normal
I ran into this as well and I'm able to reproduce it.
The bigger the -g incremental file, the more often it seg faults. Some
groups of dirs trigger it, some don't. It can even seg fault on the first
run (before the listed-incremental file is
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