Confirmed on ubuntu 9.04 64bit and 32bit. Quite easy to reproduce;
rince@dell:~$ cd
rince@dell:~$ ftp
ftp> !touch file
*** glibc detected *** ftp: corrupted double-linked list: 0x00000000015b9080 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7fb076a07b2c]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7fb076a098f1]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x98)[0x7fb076a0b828]
/lib/libc.so.6(_obstack_begin+0x61)[0x7fb076a0ef21]
ftp[0x40e0d4]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x7fb0769ad5a6]
ftp(fclose+0x199)[0x402759]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00413000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1821277 /usr/bin/netkit-ftp
00612000-00615000 rw-p 00012000 08:05 1821277 /usr/bin/netkit-ftp
00615000-00622000 rw-p 00615000 00:00 0
015a3000-015c4000 rw-p 015a3000 00:00 0 [heap]
7fb070000000-7fb070021000 rw-p 7fb070000000 00:00 0
7fb070021000-7fb074000000 ---p 7fb070021000 00:00 0
7fb075d38000-7fb075d4e000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1410405 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fb075d4e000-7fb075f4e000 ---p 00016000 08:05 1410405 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fb075f4e000-7fb075f4f000 r--p 00016000 08:05 1410405 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fb075f4f000-7fb075f50000 rw-p 00017000 08:05 1410405 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fb075f50000-7fb075f5a000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1409441 /lib/libnss_nis-2.9.so
7fb075f5a000-7fb076159000 ---p 0000a000 08:05 1409441 /lib/libnss_nis-2.9.so
7fb076159000-7fb07615a000 r--p 00009000 08:05 1409441 /lib/libnss_nis-2.9.so
7fb07615a000-7fb07615b000 rw-p 0000a000 08:05 1409441 /lib/libnss_nis-2.9.so
7fb07615b000-7fb076171000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1409436 /lib/libnsl-2.9.so
7fb076171000-7fb076371000 ---p 00016000 08:05 1409436 /lib/libnsl-2.9.so
7fb076371000-7fb076372000 r--p 00016000 08:05 1409436 /lib/libnsl-2.9.so
7fb076372000-7fb076373000 rw-p 00017000 08:05 1409436 /lib/libnsl-2.9.so
7fb076373000-7fb076375000 rw-p 7fb076373000 00:00 0
7fb076375000-7fb07637d000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1409437 /lib/libnss_compat-2.9.so
7fb07637d000-7fb07657c000 ---p 00008000 08:05 1409437 /lib/libnss_compat-2.9.so
7fb07657c000-7fb07657d000 r--p 00007000 08:05 1409437 /lib/libnss_compat-2.9.so
7fb07657d000-7fb07657e000 rw-p 00008000 08:05 1409437 /lib/libnss_compat-2.9.so
7fb07657e000-7fb07658a000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1409439 /lib/libnss_files-2.9.so
7fb07658a000-7fb076789000 ---p 0000c000 08:05 1409439 /lib/libnss_files-2.9.so
7fb076789000-7fb07678a000 r--p 0000b000 08:05 1409439 /lib/libnss_files-2.9.so
7fb07678a000-7fb07678b000 rw-p 0000c000 08:05 1409439 /lib/libnss_files-2.9.so
7fb07678b000-7fb07678d000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1409433 /lib/libdl-2.9.so
7fb07678d000-7fb07698d000 ---p 00002000 08:05 1409433 /lib/libdl-2.9.so
7fb07698d000-7fb07698e000 r--p 00002000 08:05 1409433 /lib/libdl-2.9.so
7fb07698e000-7fb07698f000 rw-p 00003000 08:05 1409433 /lib/libdl-2.9.so
7fb07698f000-7fb076af7000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1409430 /lib/libc-2.9.so
7fb076af7000-7fb076cf7000 ---p 00168000 08:05 1409430 /lib/libc-2.9.so
7fb076cf7000-7fb076cfb000 r--p 00168000 08:05 1409430 /lib/libc-2.9.so
7fb076cfb000-7fb076cfc000 rw-p 0016c000 08:05 1409430 /lib/libc-2.9.so
7fb076cfc000-7fb076d01000 rw-p 7fb076cfc000 00:00 0
7fb076d01000-7fb076d3a000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1409105 /lib/libncurses.so.5.7
7fb076d3a000-7fb076f39000 ---p 00039000 08:05 1409105 /lib/libncurses.so.5.7
7fb076f39000-7fb076f3d000 r--p 00038000 08:05 1409105 /lib/libncurses.so.5.7
7fb076f3d000-7fb076f3e000 rw-p 0003c000 08:05 1409105 /lib/libncurses.so.5.7
7fb076f3e000-7fb076f74000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1409159 /lib/libreadline.so.5.2
7fb076f74000-7fb077173000 ---p 00036000 08:05 1409159 /lib/libreadline.so.5.2
7fb077173000-7fb077175000 r--p 00035000 08:05 1409159 /lib/libreadline.so.5.2
7fb077175000-7fb07717b000 rw-p 00037000 08:05 1409159 /lib/libreadline.so.5.2
7fb07717b000-7fb07717c000 rw-p 7fb07717b000 00:00 0
7fb07717c000-7fb07719c000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1409427 /lib/ld-2.9.so
7fb077333000-7fb077372000 r--p 00000000 08:05 1671640 /usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_CTYPE
7fb077372000-7fb077375000 rw-p 7fb077372000 00:00 0
7fb077390000-7fb077391000 rw-p 7fb077390000 00:00 0
7fb077391000-7fb077398000 r--s 00000000 08:05 1368216 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
7fb077398000-7fb07739b000 rw-p 7fb077398000 00:00 0
7fb07739b000-7fb07739c000 r--p 0001f000 08:05 1409427 /lib/ld-2.9.so
7fb07739c000-7fb07739d000 rw-p 00020000 08:05 1409427 /lib/ld-2.9.so
7fff7f388000-7fff7f39d000 rw-p 7ffffffea000 00:00 0 [stack]
7fff7f3ff000-7fff7f400000 r-xp 7fff7f3ff000 00:00 0 [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall]
Aborted
rince@dell:~$
Other details;
rince@dell:/tmp$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
rince@dell:/tmp$ apt-cache policy ftp
ftp:
Installed: 0.17-18
Candidate: 0.17-18
Version table:
*** 0.17-18 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I'm not at all an expert. Therefore, I can only guess that my bug is the same as here. I had several crashes when ftp-ing in the terminal when I tried to cd to another directory on the local file system.
1st example:
--
$ ftp [server]
Connected to [server].
220 ProFTPD 1.3.1 Server (ProFTPD) [IP address]
Name (...): [name]
331 Password required for [name]
Password:
230 User [name] logged in
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd httpdocs
250 CWD command successful
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
drwxr-x--- 5 gaga psaserv 4096 Jul 26 09:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jun 12 2008 ..
(...)
226-Transfer complete
226 Quotas off
ftp> mkdir div
257 "/httpdocs/div" - Directory successfully created
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
drwxr-x--- 6 gaga psaserv 4096 Jul 26 09:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jun 12 2008 ..
(...)
drwxr-xr-x 2 gaga psacln 4096 Jul 26 09:25 div
(...)
226-Transfer complete
226 Quotas off
ftp> cd div
250 CWD command successful
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
drwxr-xr-x 2 gaga psacln 4096 Jul 26 09:25 .
drwxr-x--- 6 gaga psaserv 4096 Jul 26 09:25 ..
226-Transfer complete
226 Quotas off
ftp> !cd [local directory that did not exist because I was not where I thought I was]
+bash: line 0: cd: last.fm: No such file or directory
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
--
2nd example:
--
ftp> !cd [inexisting local directory]
+bash: line 0: cd: gadfads: No such file or directory
*** glibc detected *** ftp: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x09c91ae8 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/
/lib/tls/
/lib/tls/
ftp[0x8054fb1]
ftp[0x8055858]
/lib/tls/
ftp[0x8049c71]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-08059000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 341382 /usr/bin/netkit-ftp
08059000-0805b000 rw-p 00010000 08:02 341382 /usr/bin/netkit-ftp
0805b000-08069000 rw-p 0805b000 00:00 0
09c83000-09ca4000 rw-p 09c83000 00:00 0 [heap]
b7bf1000-b7bfe000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 251536 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7bfe000-b7bff000 r--p 0000c000 08:02 251536 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7bff000-b7c00000 rw-p 0000d000 08:02 251536 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7c00000-b7c21000 rw-p b7c00000 00:00 0
b7c21000-b7d00000 ---p b7c21000 00:00 0
b7d21000-b7d60000 r--p 00000000 08:02 374030 /usr/lib/
b7d60000-b7d72000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 268756 /lib/tls/
b7d72000-b7d73000 r--p 00011000 08:02 268756 /lib/tls/
b7d73000-b7d74000 rw-p 00012000 08:02 268756 /lib/tls/
b7d74000-b7d76000 rw-p b7d74000 00:00 0
b7d76000-b7d7b000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 268743 /lib/tls/
b7d7b000-b7d7c000 r--p 00004000 08:02 268743 /lib/tls/
b7d7c000-b7d7d000 rw-p ...