Bug#410466: splitmail: segmentation fault

[Mirko Taschenberger <mirko.taschenberger@t-online.de>]

Package: metamail
Version: 2.7-52
Severity: important


Hello,
using the metasend script it breaks at the splitmail programm with
 a segmentation fault.
gdb says following:

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Reading symbols from /lib/libncurses.so.5...(no debugging symbols 
found)...done.
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
Loaded symbols for /lib/libncurses.so.5
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libmetamail.so.0...(no debugging symbols 
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libmetamail.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols 
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

Core was generated by `splitmail -s 500000 -d /tmp/metamTvpkvB'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x00002b07fa7a1590 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00002b07fa7a1590 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x00002b07fa77347c in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x00002b07fa7936ea in vsnprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x00002b07fa779363 in snprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x0000000000401735 in ?? ()
(gdb)   

Thank you very much for fixing this !

kind regards,
Mirko Taschenberger

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-amd64
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages metamail depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                 5.5-5        Shared libraries for terminal hand

Versions of packages metamail recommends:
ii  mime-support                  3.39-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  sharutils                     1:4.2.1-15 shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode

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