I confirm this bug.
Both "update" and "updatedb" commands have frozen my computer (due to full 
RAM), and the second command was actually killed by the out-of-memory killer 
(/usr/lib/auto-apt/auto-apt-pkgdcb is indeed the "guilty" program).

The workaround mentioned by the bug reporter also works for me.
Actually, after applying this workaround and the workaround mentioned in Bug 
#1300991, auto-apt works correctly.

For those who want to apply the workaround, one way to get the 0.3.22 version 
of the auto-apt-pkgdcb file is to download the 32 or 64 bit DEB of auto-apt of 
Raring from here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/auto-apt
Then open the DEB in the archive manager, extract the auto-apt-pkgdcb file from 
its usr/lib/auto-apt directory and replace the system 
/usr/lib/auto-apt/auto-apt-pkgdcb file with this one.

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  /usr/lib/auto-apt/auto-apt-pkgdcb consumes over 100% RAM on 0.3.23

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