Getting "polkitd general protection error:0 in libmozjs-17.0.so" on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Issue

• polkitd aborting with the following message

  kernel: traps: polkitd[####] general protection ip:7ffff69e5cf2 sp:7fffffffdee0 error:0 in libmozjs-17.0.so[7ffff68a7000+3b3000]
  systemd: polkit.service: main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV
  

• If abrt is in use, may also see the following in syslog

  abrt-hook-ccpp: Saved core dump of pid #### (/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MM:SS-#### (65622016 bytes)