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Title:
  Apt crashes with SIGSEGV in pkgCache::FindPkg() on corrupted
  pkgcache.bin

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “synaptic” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Apt, aptitude and synaptic crash soon after accessing
  /var/lib/dpkg/status. Here is the strace output from apt-get install
  foo

  stat("/var/lib/dpkg/status", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1528590, ...}) = 0
  msync(0x2aefaadb5000, 8704, MS_SYNC)    = 0
  stat("/var/lib/dpkg/status", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1528590, ...}) = 0
  open("/var/lib/dpkg/status", O_RDONLY)  = 7
  fcntl(7, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)           = 0
  read(7, "Package: python-bittorrent\nStatu"..., 32768) = 32768
  ) = 29g package lists... 0% lists... 0%\r", 29
  stat("/var/lib/dpkg/status", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1528590, ...}) = 0
  fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1528590, ...}) = 0
  --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
  +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

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