Bug#449368: axel: segmentation fault when FTP CWD fails

[Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <giridhar@appaji.net>]

Package: axel
Version: 1.0b-3
Severity: normal

$ axel -n 4 http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.ubuntu.com/edgy/ubuntu-6.10-alternate-i386.iso
Initializing download: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.ubuntu.com/edgy/ubuntu-6.10-alternate-i386.iso
[1]    13980 segmentation fault (core dumped)  axel -n 4 

Running a debug build ...

[snip...]
230 Logged in for anonymous FTP
fd(3)<--TYPE I
fd(3)-->200 Type set to I
fd(3)<--CWD /sites/releases.ubuntu.com/edgy/
fd(3)-->550 Can't access /sites/releases.ubuntu.com/edgy: No such file or directory
fd(-1)<--RETR ubuntu-6.10-alternate-i386.iso
[1]    14433 segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./axel -n 4 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages axel depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

axel recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information