Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) reached end-of-life on May 16, 2014.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases I could not replicate the crash in currently supported versions (focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic). We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it anymore. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in. ** Changed in: gdb (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gdb in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1131841 Title: gdb run as root: untrusted .gdbinit causes malloc arena corruption crash Status in gdb: Invalid Status in gdb package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When running gdb as root, the existence of ~/.gdbinit (untrusted) causes gdb to crash with a duplicate free or other heap corruption. This bug is due to some debian/ubuntu specific patches ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gdb 7.5-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35-generic 3.5.7.2 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Feb 22 17:36:12 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-31 (480 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64+mac (20111012) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gdb UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-14 (131 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdb/+bug/1131841/+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
