tlf crashes on hitting ENTER

Binary package hint: tlf

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

$ apt-cache policy tlf

tlf:
  Installed: 0.9.32.3-4
  Candidate: 0.9.32.3-4
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.32.3-4 0
        500 http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What happened
=============

1. Execute:

$ tlf

2. Tlf starts and everything looks normal. I get the "login:". From then on, no matter what I try to do, as soon as I hit the [ENTER] key, I get a crash. Here is what I get on the terminal:

*** buffer overflow detected ***: tlf terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7eff21346647]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7eff213455f0]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7eff21344734]
tlf[0x40e6c3]
tlf[0x42f7a6]
tlf[0x431b9e]
tlf[0x41a7a5]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7eff2126dabd]
tlf[0x403819]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-0043e000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 40235 /usr/bin/tlf
0063d000-0063e000 r--p 0003d000 fc:00 40235 /usr/bin/tlf
0063e000-00641000 rw-p 0003e000 fc:00 40235 /usr/bin/tlf
00641000-009d1000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
0104e000-01090000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
7eff20e34000-7eff20e4a000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 12742 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7eff20e4a000-7eff21049000 ---p 00016000 fc:00 12742 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7eff21049000-7eff2104a000 r--p 00015000 fc:00 12742 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7eff2104a000-7eff2104b000 rw-p 00016000 fc:00 12742 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7eff2104b000-7eff2104d000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 6773 /lib/libdl-2.10.1.so
7eff2104d000-7eff2124d000 ---p 00002000 fc:00 6773 /lib/libdl-2.10.1.so
7eff2124d000-7eff2124e000 r--p 00002000 fc:00 6773 /lib/libdl-2.10.1.so
7eff2124e000-7eff2124f000 rw-p 00003000 fc:00 6773 /lib/libdl-2.10.1.so
7eff2124f000-7eff213b5000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 6715 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
7eff213b5000-7eff215b4000 ---p 00166000 fc:00 6715 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
7eff215b4000-7eff215b8000 r--p 00165000 fc:00 6715 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
7eff215b8000-7eff215b9000 rw-p 00169000 fc:00 6715 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
7eff215b9000-7eff215be000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7eff215be000-7eff21640000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 7119 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
7eff21640000-7eff21840000 ---p 00082000 fc:00 7119 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
7eff21840000-7eff21841000 r--p 00082000 fc:00 7119 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
7eff21841000-7eff21842000 rw-p 00083000 fc:00 7119 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
7eff21842000-7eff21859000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 7559 /lib/libpthread-2.10.1.so
7eff21859000-7eff21a58000 ---p 00017000 fc:00 7559 /lib/libpthread-2.10.1.so
7eff21a58000-7eff21a59000 r--p 00016000 fc:00 7559 /lib/libpthread-2.10.1.so
7eff21a59000-7eff21a5a000 rw-p 00017000 fc:00 7559 /lib/libpthread-2.10.1.so
7eff21a5a000-7eff21a5e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7eff21a5e000-7eff21a9c000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 2413 /lib/libncurses.so.5.7
7eff21a9c000-7eff21c9c000 ---p 0003e000 fc:00 2413 /lib/libncurses.so.5.7
7eff21c9c000-7eff21ca0000 r--p 0003e000 fc:00 2413 /lib/libncurses.so.5.7
7eff21ca0000-7eff21ca1000 rw-p 00042000 fc:00 2413 /lib/libncurses.so.5.7
7eff21ca1000-7eff21cbd000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 7739 /usr/lib/libhamlib.so.2.0.9
7eff21cbd000-7eff21ebd000 ---p 0001c000 fc:00 7739 /usr/lib/libhamlib.so.2.0.9
7eff21ebd000-7eff21ebf000 r--p 0001c000 fc:00 7739 /usr/lib/libhamlib.so.2.0.9
7eff21ebf000-7eff21ec0000 rw-p 0001e000 fc:00 7739 /usr/lib/libhamlib.so.2.0.9
7eff21ec0000-7eff21edf000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 6249 /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
7eff220b4000-7eff220b8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7eff220db000-7eff220de000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7eff220de000-7eff220df000 r--p 0001e000 fc:00 6249 /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
7eff220df000-7eff220e0000 rw-p 0001f000 fc:00 6249 /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
7fff11547000-7fff1155c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
7fff115ff000-7fff11600000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall]
Aborted

What I expected
=============

I expected tlf not to crash.