Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (getkey.c:2079:merge_selfsigs)

[Phil Pennock]

Is this a known issue, fixed in 1.4.3?
There's nothing obviously dealing with it in
 <URL:http://cvs.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/cipher/ChangeLog?rev=4003&view=markup>

% gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.2.1-ecc0.1.6
[...]
% gpg --list-sigs 0xC9541FB2
[...]
gpg: Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (getkey.c:2079:merge_selfsigs)
secmem usage: 1408/1408 bytes in 2/2 blocks of pool 1408/32768
sig          0x2927A28A 2003-01-12  zsh: abort      gpg --list-sigs 0xC9541FB2

A selection of other complaints listing signatures on that key:

gpg: packet(7) with unknown version 0
gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: invalid packet
gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: invalid keyring
gpg: keydb_search failed: invalid keyring

gpg: skipped compressed packet in keyring
gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: eof

gpg: [don't know]: indeterminate length for invalid packet type 6
gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: invalid packet
gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: invalid keyring
gpg: keydb_search failed: invalid keyring

gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=03)
gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: invalid packet
gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: invalid keyring
gpg: keydb_search failed: invalid keyring

 (also with a few other values of ctb)

gpg: packet(14) with unknown version 115
gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: invalid packet
gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: invalid keyring
gpg: keydb_search failed: invalid keyring

Thanks,
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