Short version:
* upstream bug existed, now fixed in git but not released
* in the meantime use version from git
* bug should propagate to Ubuntu package eventually

Long version:

I now use version from today's git and confirm it fixes the bug.

>From upstream author Jason Blevins:

> Thank you very much for letting me know about the report.  Indeed, this is a 
> known issue with markdown-mode 1.8.1.  It was fixed in the development 
> version, which is available here:
>
> http://jblevins.org/git/markdown-mode.git

> Emacs has never crashed on me
> as a result of this, but there were many unusual search and replace
> issues that were fixed by the following patch:
>
> http://jblevins.org/git/markdown-mode.git/commit/?id=eacccad35ac424916c2f44dac178c7d91894f17b

> I always notify the Debian emacs-goodies-el maintainer when I do so [release 
> a stable version], in which case I believe
it should make its way into Ubuntu.

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  In markdown-mode, some emacs features misbehave, sometimes emacs
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