rpm segfaults with some rpm packages. We think it is specifically packages with the strategy 'noreplace'.
root@qemu0:~# rpm -Vp <rpmfile> ... rpm[917]: segfault at a0 ip 0000003d7d22464d sp 00007fff1e2feef0 error 4 in librpm-5.4.so[3d7d200000+63000] Segmentation fault