dvips crashes with "glibc detected *** dvips: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00007fffa48dbfa9"

Bug #871682 reported by Leander Jedamus
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Bug Description

Hi!

I have a file rezepte.dvi (768792 bytes long) and want to convert it into a ps-file with dvips:
$ dvips rezepte.dvi
*** glibc detected *** dvips: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00007fffa48dbfa9 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x775b6)[0x7feaf093e5b6]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x73)[0x7feaf0944e83]
dvips[0x40a7f0]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7feaf08e5c4d]
dvips[0x4022f9]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-0042e000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 788865 /usr/bin/dvips
0062d000-0062e000 r--p 0002d000 08:11 788865 /usr/bin/dvips
0062e000-0062f000 rw-p 0002e000 08:11 788865 /usr/bin/dvips
0062f000-0064a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
0141d000-0143e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
7feaec000000-7feaec021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7feaec021000-7feaf0000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
7feaf06b0000-7feaf06c6000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 10747984 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7feaf06c6000-7feaf08c5000 ---p 00016000 08:11 10747984 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7feaf08c5000-7feaf08c6000 r--p 00015000 08:11 10747984 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7feaf08c6000-7feaf08c7000 rw-p 00016000 08:11 10747984 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7feaf08c7000-7feaf0a41000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 10748486 /lib/libc-2.11.1.so
7feaf0a41000-7feaf0c40000 ---p 0017a000 08:11 10748486 /lib/libc-2.11.1.so
7feaf0c40000-7feaf0c44000 r--p 00179000 08:11 10748486 /lib/libc-2.11.1.so
7feaf0c44000-7feaf0c45000 rw-p 0017d000 08:11 10748486 /lib/libc-2.11.1.so
7feaf0c45000-7feaf0c4a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7feaf0c4a000-7feaf0ccc000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 10748490 /lib/libm-2.11.1.so
7feaf0ccc000-7feaf0ecb000 ---p 00082000 08:11 10748490 /lib/libm-2.11.1.so
7feaf0ecb000-7feaf0ecc000 r--p 00081000 08:11 10748490 /lib/libm-2.11.1.so
7feaf0ecc000-7feaf0ecd000 rw-p 00082000 08:11 10748490 /lib/libm-2.11.1.so
7feaf0ecd000-7feaf0ee1000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 786703 /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.5.0.0
7feaf0ee1000-7feaf10e0000 ---p 00014000 08:11 786703 /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.5.0.0
7feaf10e0000-7feaf10e1000 r--p 00013000 08:11 786703 /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.5.0.0
7feaf10e1000-7feaf10e2000 rw-p 00014000 08:11 786703 /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.5.0.0
7feaf10e2000-7feaf10e5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7feaf10e5000-7feaf1105000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 10748017 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so
7feaf12d9000-7feaf12dc000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7feaf1302000-7feaf1304000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7feaf1304000-7feaf1305000 r--p 0001f000 08:11 10748017 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so
7feaf1305000-7feaf1306000 rw-p 00020000 08:11 10748017 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so
7feaf1306000-7feaf1307000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fffa48c7000-7fffa48dc000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
7fffa490d000-7fffa490e000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall]
zsh: abort dvips rezepte.dvi

Ubuntu is Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
apt-cache policy texlive-binaries says 2009-5ubuntu0.2

Thanks in advance
Leander Jedamus

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