Bug#170953: dpkg: md5um crash

[Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.4
Severity: normal

To reproduce:

wget ftp://fly.cnuce.cnr.it/pub/tmp/KNOPPIX_V3.1-08-11-2002-EN.iso.bz2
bunzip2 KNOPPIX_V3.1-08-11-2002-EN.iso.bz2
md5sum -c KNOPPIX_V3.1-08-11-2002-EN.iso

it spits some garbage, then dumps core

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux pot.cnuce.cnr.it 2.4.18 #2 Mon Jul 29 12:21:48 CEST 2002 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect        1.10.4         a user tool to manage Debian packages
ii  libc6          2.2.5-14.3     GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone