nstat repeatedly dies with "Aborted (core dumped)" message

Issue

• Executing nstat fails continuously and produces a core dump

  # nstat
  Aborted (core dumped)
  

• The core dump shows the following backtrace

  # gdb /usr/sbin/nstat coredump
  [...]
  (gdb) bt
  #0  0x00007fb3a26c0377 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:55
  #1  0x00007fb3a26c1a68 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:90
  #2  0x0000000000402602 in load_good_table (fp=fp@entry=0x169c0a0) at nstat.c:147
  #3  0x00000000004021f7 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at nstat.c:696