[Parted-maintainers] Bug#743816: parted and partprobe segfault on various actions

[agaida]

Package: parted
Version: 2.3-18
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

parted and partprobe crashed several times on a kvm machine,
not so nice if scripts need these programs. Some samples of crashes


# parted -l
Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system).  /dev/sr0
has been opened read-only.


You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do:

Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data.
Help us to fix this bug by doing the following:

......

# parted /dev/sr0 unit co print unit s print
Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system).
/dev/sr0 has been opened read-only.
Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system).
/dev/sr0 has been opened read-only.
*** Error in `parted': double free or corruption (!prev): 0x00000000006e76b0 ***
parted: malloc.c:3641: _int_malloc: Assertion `(unsigned long)(size) >= (unsigned long)(nb)' failed.

~$ sudo partprobe -s
Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system).  /dev/sr0 has been opened read-only.
*** Error in `partprobe': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000001e41000 ***
*** Error in `partprobe': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000001e40dc0 ***

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tested with isos back to january - mid of january was ok.

Greez Alf
                                                                       

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-0.towo.3-siduction-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6              2.18-4
ii  libparted0debian1  2.3-18
ii  libreadline6       6.3-6
ii  libtinfo5          5.9+20140118-1

parted recommends no packages.

Versions of packages parted suggests:
pn  parted-doc  <none>

-- no debconf information