Bug#120311: apt-cache segfaults on malformed status-file

["Håvard Lygre" <hklygre@online.no>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal


In my status file (/var/lib/dpkg/status), I have a line (in the package
libnspr4-dev), which says "Status: purge ok not-i.stalled".  This makes
apt-cache segfault on just about any operation (any I've tried, anyway).


Status file available as
   http://www.boblycat.com/~hklygre/apt-cache/status.bz2 (296k)
Coredump available as
   http://www.boblycat.com/~hklygre/apt-cache/core.bz2 (92k)



-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux frode 2.4.14-smp-raid #1 SMP Thu Nov 15 07:35:28 CET 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=no_NO

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.2.4-6           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library