Description of problem:

The /bin/cut command core dumps when used to search multiple files for a
non-existent field...

# create 2 files with 1 field apiece
echo 1 > a
echo 1 > b
cut -f1 *    # works
cut -f1- *   # works
cut -f2 *    # works
cut -f2- a   # works, although there is only 1 field in the file
cut -f2- a b # fails (see below)

> cut -f2- *
1
1
*** glibc detected *** cut: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x09fce1b0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x41a34efd]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0x41a38550]
cut[0x8049ec2]
cut[0x804a8f4]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0x419e4f2c]
cut[0x8048d81]
======= Memory map: ========
0090c000-0090d000 r-xp 0090c000 00:00 0          [vdso]
08048000-08050000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 98354      /bin/cut
08050000-08051000 rwxp 00007000 fd:00 98354      /bin/cut
09fce000-09fef000 rwxp 09fce000 00:00 0 
41000000-41019000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 196673     /lib/ld-2.5.so
41019000-4101a000 r-xp 00018000 fd:00 196673     /lib/ld-2.5.so
4101a000-4101b000 rwxp 00019000 fd:00 196673     /lib/ld-2.5.so
419cf000-41b06000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 196679     /lib/libc-2.5.so
41b06000-41b08000 r-xp 00137000 fd:00 196679     /lib/libc-2.5.so
41b08000-41b09000 rwxp 00139000 fd:00 196679     /lib/libc-2.5.so
41b09000-41b0c000 rwxp 41b09000 00:00 0 
41ddc000-41de7000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 196690     /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.1-20061011.so.1
41de7000-41de8000 rwxp 0000a000 fd:00 196690     /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.1-20061011.so.1
b7e00000-b7e21000 rw-p b7e00000 00:00 0 
b7e21000-b7f00000 ---p b7e21000 00:00 0 
b7f5c000-b7f5d000 rw-p b7f5c000 00:00 0 
b7f81000-b7f84000 rw-p b7f81000 00:00 0 
bfbce000-bfbe3000 rw-p bfbce000 00:00 0          [stack]
Aborted (core dumped)
> gdb cut core.26041 
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".


warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
Core was generated by `cut -f2- a b'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
#0  0x0090c402 in ?? ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x0090c402 in ?? ()
#1  0x419f7d40 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x419f9591 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x41a2d18b in __libc_message () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x41a34efd in _int_free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x41a38550 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#6  0x08049ec2 in ?? ()
#7  0x0804a8f4 in ?? ()
#8  0x419e4f2c in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9  0x08048d81 in ?? ()


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

coreutils-5.97-12.2.fc6

How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo 1 > a;echo 1 > b
2. cut -f2- a b
  
Actual results:

core dump.

Expected results:

No core dump.

Additional info: