Wireshark crashes with "GSlice: assertion failed"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Using wireshark crashes with the following message:
***MEMORY-ERROR***: wireshark[PID]: GSlice: assertion failed: sinfo->n_allocated > 0
Aborted

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2 and earlier
  • Wireshark

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