Thanks for your bug report. I am closing the bug, as it is old and probably a bug we fixed in the meantime, if it was our bug (I can see no potentially unsafe handling of strings there, so that's a bit weird)
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/967111 Title: mirror crashed with SIGSEGV in _M_data() Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Doing apt-mirror ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: apt 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic-pae 3.2.12 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Mar 27 10:02:18 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/apt/methods/mirror InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301) ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/apt/methods/mirror ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: apt Title: mirror crashed with SIGSEGV in std::string::assign() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/967111/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp