"glibc detected - double free or corruption"

[hdm at metasploit.com (H D Moore)]

Bizzare, I will try to reproduce this tonight. Is there a specific exploit 
you are using that is triggering this flaw? Are you using msfconsole, 
msfcli, or msfweb? Any chance this exploit is set to use SSL? Just trying 
to narrow down where the problem might lie.

-HD

On Friday 03 June 2005 17:52, Anthony Riehm wrote:
> Running the Framework on Fedora Core 3; when trying to perform an
> exploit it (seemingly randomly) will begin the process and then stop
> with an error that says,
>
> *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0912d4d0
> ***
>
> This happens on versions 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 of Framework... but it
> doesn't do it every single time.
>
> I did a search for that error message and other people have had that
> problem on Fedora Core 3, in other programs. One person suggested
> doing:
>
> export MALLOC_CHECK_=1
>
> but even this didn't fix the problem; I just got other errors.