[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#403562: xsltproc crashed (bus error) - memory corruption?

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: xsltproc
Version: 1.1.19-1
Severity: important

When running xsltproc, it crashed.

Core was generated by `xsltproc --stringparam date 2006-12-17 --stringparam prg xsltproc (using libxml'.
Program terminated with signal 7, Bus error.
#0  0x0fbcd6a4 in malloc_usable_size () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0fbcd6a4 in malloc_usable_size () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0x0fcb7f44 in ?? () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2  0x0fbd0384 in malloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#3  0x0fdb9e34 in xmlBufferCreate () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
#4  0x0fdc63c0 in xmlAllocOutputBuffer () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
#5  0x0fdc6628 in xmlOutputBufferCreateFile () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
#6  0x0ff1d3d8 in xsltSaveResultToFile () from /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1
#7  0x10002cc4 in ?? ()
#8  0x10003650 in ?? ()
#9  0x0fb73994 in __libc_init_first () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#10 0x0fb73994 in __libc_init_first () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#11 0x0fb73994 in __libc_init_first () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)

I can't reproduce the crash (with the same arguments).
Perhaps random memory corruption?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages xsltproc depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.3.6.ds1-8   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcrypt11                1.2.3-2       LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0              1.4-2         library for common error values an
ii  libxml2                    2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1                 1.1.19-1      XSLT processing library - runtime 

xsltproc recommends no packages.

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