dd reporting Segmentation Fault

Binary package hint: coreutils

It seems like this is happening on a number of boxes, dd is always reporting a segfault, like so:

shoobs@fabiana:~$ dd if=/dev/cdrom count=1 of=/mnt/storage/bab.iso
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
Segmentation fault

Here are a few links on ubuntuforums to others having the same problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=247624&highlight=dd+segmentation+fault
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=232708&highlight=dd+segmentation+fault
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=266544&highlight=dd+segmentation+fault
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=267932&highlight=dd+segmentation+fault
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=236614&highlight=dd+segmentation+fault
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=265424&highlight=dd+segmentation+fault
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=240360&highlight=dd+segmentation+fault

And perhaps some diagnostics from another user with the same problem:
http://<email address hidden>/msg07807.html

Apparently a fix is to add LANG=en to the beginning of the command line, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet.