Red Hat 6.2's ftp segmentation fault

[prrar () NITNET COM BR (Paulo Ribeiro)]

Hi, folks.

Look what I found this evening (Red Hat Linux 6.2, kernel 2.2.16):

[user@my /]$ rpm -q ftp
ftp-0.16-3
[user@my /]$ ftp host
Connected to host.
220 host FTP server (Version wu-2.6.0(1) Fri Oct 22 00:38:20 CDT 1999)
ready.
Name (host:user): ftp
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> put *
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[user@my /]$ gdb ftp core
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
(no debugging symbols found)...
Core was generated by `ftp slackware'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/kerberos/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/kerberos/lib/libkrb4.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/kerberos/lib/libkrb5.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/kerberos/lib/libdes425.so.3...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/kerberos/lib/libk5crypto.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/kerberos/lib/libcom_err.so.3...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libutil.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_nisplus.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_nis.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_dns.so.2...done.
#0  chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x401fbd60, p=0x8070a34) at malloc.c:3049
3049    malloc.c: No such file or directory.t malloc.c:3049
(gdb) where
#0  chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x401fbd60, p=0x8070a34) at malloc.c:3049
#1  0x40166fba in __libc_free (mem=0x8070a3c) at malloc.c:3023
#2  0x804d8a8 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#3  0x804b00a in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#4  0x8055860 in login ()
#5  0x80555ac in login ()
#6  0x401259cb in __libc_start_main (main=0x80551c0 <login+24584>,
argc=2,
    argv=0xbffffb44, init=0x8049aa0, fini=0x8057a0c <lstat+88>,
    rtld_fini=0x4000ae60 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffb3c)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:92

Any idea?

Yours,
Paulo Ribeiro.