adb assert failure: *** Error in `adb': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000008e2d49adb0 ***

[BenginM]

Salutations!

I was sidloading through adb to flash an updated version of android for a smartphone in xubuntu 17.10 and while in recovery , the process went fine.. later i've seen the crash window in the background advising me to report a bug, and there are no similar bug reports were found..

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: adb 1:7.0.0+r33-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-13.19-generic 4.11.12
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: *** Error in `adb': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000008e2d49adb0 ***
Date: Fri Aug 18 21:58:21 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-08 (10 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
ProcCmdline: adb -P 5037 fork-server server --reply-fd 4
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: android-platform-system-core
StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7fecb74e4f68 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:175
 malloc_printerr (ar_ptr=<optimized out>, ptr=<optimized out>, str=0x7fecb74e1b18 "free(): invalid pointer", action=3) at malloc.c:5049
 _int_free (av=<optimized out>, p=<optimized out>, have_lock=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:3905
 __GI___libc_free (mem=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:2985
 CRYPTO_free () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
Title: adb assert failure: *** Error in `adb': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000008e2d49adb0 ***
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-08-08 (10 days ago)
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StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7fecb74e4f68 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:175
 malloc_printerr (ar_ptr=<optimized out>, ptr=<optimized out>, str=0x7fecb74e1b18 "free(): invalid pointer", action=3) at malloc.c:5049
 _int_free (av=<optimized out>, p=<optimized out>, have_lock=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:3905
 __GI___libc_free (mem=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:2985
 CRYPTO_free (str=0x8e2d49adb0) at mem.c:442

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.