Comment #32 dated 2013-04-05: "This bug was fixed in the package pycurl - 7.19.0-5ubuntu7"
The fix has not yet got back to (X)ubuntu 12.04(.2) LTS - considering it is a security-related isssue (securely identifying repositories in add- apt-repository), its backporting should surely be given some urgency - please! + sudo true + uname -a Linux Shuttle01 3.2.0-49-generic #75-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 18 17:40:13 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux + grep -E 'name|flags' /proc/cpuinfo model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up + sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-0 Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 551, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 99, in run self.add_ppa_signing_key(self.ppa_path) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 132, in add_ppa_signing_key tmp_keyring_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 322, in mkdtemp name = names.next() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 141, in next letters = [choose(c) for dummy in "123456"] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/random.py", line 274, in choice return seq[int(self.random() * len(seq))] # raises IndexError if seq is empty ValueError: cannot convert float NaN to integer You are about to add the following PPA to your system: LibreOffice 4.0.x series stable backports ppa (and SRU-testing for raring) http://sweetshark.livejournal.com/10977.html This ppa will: - not contain alpha and beta releases like 4.0.0~beta2 - not contain updates to the next major (4.1.x) - contain minor release updates and their release candidates -- these can be considered stable Note that for minor release updates (4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3 ...) an rc2 is almost always exactly the same as the final version. see: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan for details More info: https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-4-0 Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1063350 Title: curl corrupts floating point context To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pycurl/+bug/1063350/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs