parted crashes with "double free or corruption" message

Ubuntu: 9.04
Version: 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1ubuntu6

Libraries:
libparted1.8-10 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1ubuntu6
libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. mkdir -p /tmp/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc
2. cd /tmp/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc
3. dd if=/dev/zero of=foobar bs=25M count=1 && parted -s foobar -- mklabel msdos && parted -s foobar -- unit kB mkpartfs primary ext2 1 -1

Expected result: Creation of image foobar containing a msdos-style partition table with a single ext2 partition

Got result: parted creates partition but crashes during a free call with the error message shown at the end of message

NOTE 1: if the path contains one less element (cd /tmp/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc) the error do not happen, so it seems related to the canonical name of the image parted works on.
NOTE 2: Bug is not reproducible with upstream version 1.8.8 of parted (Patch needed for compiling included in this report).

Here is the error message of glibc:

*** glibc detected *** parted: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08adcab8 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7d2c604]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x96)[0xb7d2e5b6]
/lib/libparted-1.8.so.10(ped_free+0x1d)[0xb7e9063d]
/lib/libparted-1.8.so.10[0xb7e9b149]
/lib/libparted-1.8.so.10(ped_device_destroy+0x64)[0xb7e8e6f4]
/lib/libparted-1.8.so.10(ped_device_free_all+0x28)[0xb7e8e738]
/lib/libparted-1.8.so.10[0xb7e907a7]
/lib/libparted-1.8.so.10[0xb7e8d998]
/lib/libparted-1.8.so.10[0xb7eda8b0]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0xb7f0ca73]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(exit+0x89)[0xb7cebbb9]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0xb7cd377d]
parted[0x804c781]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0805b000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 3325958 /sbin/parted
0805b000-0805c000 r--p 00012000 08:02 3325958 /sbin/parted
0805c000-0805d000 rw-p 00013000 08:02 3325958 /sbin/parted
08ad5000-08b99000 rw-p 08ad5000 00:00 0 [heap]
b7a00000-b7a21000 rw-p b7a00000 00:00 0
b7a21000-b7b00000 ---p b7a21000 00:00 0
b7b22000-b7b2f000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 2408547 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7b2f000-b7b30000 r--p 0000c000 08:02 2408547 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7b30000-b7b31000 rw-p 0000d000 08:02 2408547 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7b43000-b7b56000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3558226 /usr/share/locale-langpack/de/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo
b7b56000-b7b95000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3244080 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_CTYPE
b7b95000-b7c80000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3244387 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_COLLATE
b7c80000-b7c81000 rw-p b7c80000 00:00 0
b7c81000-b7c99000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 2408552 /lib/libselinux.so.1
b7c99000-b7c9a000 r--p 00017000 08:02 2408552 /lib/libselinux.so.1
b7c9a000-b7c9b000 rw-p 00018000 08:02 2408552 /lib/libselinux.so.1
b7c9b000-b7c9c000 rw-p b7c9b000 00:00 0
b7c9c000-b7c9f000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 2408511 /lib/libuuid.so.1.2
b7c9f000-b7ca0000 r--p 00002000 08:02 2408511 /lib/libuuid.so.1.2
b7ca0000-b7ca1000 rw-p 00003000 08:02 2408511 /lib/libuuid.so.1.2
b7ca1000-b7cb6000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 2410598 /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02.1
b7cb6000-b7cb7000 r--p 00014000 08:02 2410598 /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02.1
b7cb7000-b7cb9000 rw-p 00015000 08:02 2410598 /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02.1
b7cb9000-b7cbb000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 3458619 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.9.so
b7cbb000-b7cbc000 r--p 00001000 08:02 3458619 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.9.so
b7cbc000-b7cbd000 rw-p 00002000 08:02 3458619 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.9.so
b7cbd000-b7e19000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 3458604 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.9.so
b7e19000-b7e1a000 ---p 0015c000 08:02 3458604 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.9.so
b7e1a000-b7e1c000 r--p 0015c000 08:02 3458604 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.9.so
b7e1c000-b7e1d000 rw-p 0015e000 08:02 3458604 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.9.so
b7e1d000-b7e20000 rw-p b7e1d000 00:00 0
b7e20000-b7e4f000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 2408503 /lib/libncurses.so.5.7
b7e4f000-b7e51000 r--p 0002e000 08:02 2408503 /lib/libncurses.so.5.7
b7e51000-b7e52000 rw-p 00030000 08:02 2408503 /lib/libncurses.so.5.7
b7e52000-b7e53000 rw-p b7e52000 00:00 0
b7e53000-b7e7f000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 2408581 /lib/libreadline.so.5.2
b7e7f000-b7e80000 ---p 0002c000 08:02 2408581 /lib/libreadline.so.5.2
b7e80000-b7e81000 r--p 0002c000 08:02 2408581 /lib/libreadline.so.5.2
b7e81000-b7e84000 rw-p 0002d000 08:02 2408581 /lib/libreadline.so.5.2
b7e84000-b7e85000 rw-p b7e84000 00:00 0
b7e85000-b7ee5000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 2408589 /lib/libparted-1.8.so.10.0.0
b7ee5000-b7ee6000 ---p 00060000 08:02 2408589 /lib/libparted-1.8.so.10.0.0
b7ee6000-b7ee7000 r--p 00060000 08:02 2408589 /lib/libparted-1.8.so.10.0.0
b7ee7000-b7ee8000 rw-p 00061000 08:02 2408589 /lib/libparted-1.8.so.10.0.0
b7ee8000-b7ee9000 rw-p b7ee8000 00:00 0
b7eea000-b7eeb000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3245567 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_NUMERIC
b7eeb000-b7eec000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3244280 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_TIME
b7eec000-b7eed000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3244388 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_MONETARY
b7eed000-b7eee000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3260444 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES
b7eee000-b7eef000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3245271 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_PAPER
b7eef000-b7ef0000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3244389 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_NAME
b7ef0000-b7ef1000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3244390 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_ADDRESS
b7ef1000-b7ef2000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3244391 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_TELEPHONE
b7ef2000-b7ef3000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3245267 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_MEASUREMENT
b7ef3000-b7efa000 r--s 00000000 08:02 3211684 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
b7efa000-b7efb000 r--p 00000000 08:02 3244392 /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICATION
b7efb000-b7efd000 rw-p b7efb000 00:00 0
b7efd000-b7efe000 r-xp b7efd000 00:00 0 [vdso]
b7efe000-b7f1a000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 2414791 /lib/ld-2.9.so
b7f1a000-b7f1b000 r--p 0001b000 08:02 2414791 /lib/ld-2.9.so
b7f1b000-b7f1c000 rw-p 0001c000 08:02 2414791 /lib/ld-2.9.so
bfa06000-bfa1b000 rw-p bffeb000 00:00 0 [stack]
Aborted