Description of problem: Testing https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796243 $ perl -e 'print "1","A"x50000000,"\r\n\r\n"' | uniq AAAA.... Segmentation fault (core dumped) $ rpm -q coreutils coreutils-8.15-9.fc17.x86_64 Version-Release number of selected component: coreutils-8.15-9.fc17 Additional info: backtrace_rating: 4 cmdline: uniq crash_function: different_multi executable: /usr/bin/uniq kernel: 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 uid: 1000 Truncated backtrace: Thread no. 1 (2 frames) #0 different_multi at uniq.c:397 #1 check_file at uniq.c:515 Potential duplicate: bug 734335
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I believe you should update your system, this was already fixed by coreutils-8.15-10.fc17 (Released Feb 1st) - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902917 . Closing duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 902917 ***