Thanks for confirming. Strangely, I was now able to reproduce the crash with your recipe on nano-2.4.2.
I think it has been fixed since then by commit 8a06dfa on August 2 last year, which was a fix for a Debian bug [1], which went into 2.4.3 and later. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787914 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #787914 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787914 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1539627 Title: Buffer underflow in nano 2.4.2-1ubuntu0.1 causes SIGSEGV To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nano/+bug/1539627/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs