Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] segfault question

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:21:13 -0700 (PDT)
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> chunk_alloc (ar_ptr=0x40528f00, nb=17) at malloc.c:2896
> 2896	malloc.c: No such file or directory.
> 	in malloc.c

Might something be freeing data twice, or scribbling past the end of
something it's allocated, or something such as that?  Those might
cause data corruption in malloc's data structures.