Error message: "/bin/ps double free or corruption detected in ps"

Issue

Error message: "/bin/ps double free or corruption detected in ps" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

*** glibc detected *** ps: double free or corruption (out): 0x000000000901aee0 *** 
======= Backtrace: ========= 
/lib64/libc.so.6[0x377e071634] 
/lib64/libc.so.6(cfree+0x8c)[0x377e074c5c] 
ps[0x4023a3] 
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x377e01d8b4] 
ps[0x4019f9] 
======= Memory map: ======== 
00400000-00413000 r-xp 00000000 69:03 58537                              /bin/ps 
00613000-00614000 rw-p 00013000 69:03 58537                              /bin/ps 
00614000-00634000 rw-p 00614000 00:00 0  
09017000-09038000 rw-p 09017000 00:00 0  
377dc00000-377dc1a000 r-xp 00000000 69:03 204740                         /lib64/ld-2.5.so 
377de1a000-377de1b000 r--p 0001a000 69:03 204740                         /lib64/ld-2.5.so 
377de1b000-377de1c000 rw-p 0001b000 69:03 204740                         /lib64/ld-2.5.so 
377e000000-377e14a000 r-xp 00000000 69:03 204743                         /lib64/libc-2.5.so 
377e14a000-377e349000 ---p 0014a000 69:03 204743                         /lib64/libc-2.5.so 
377e349000-377e34d000 r--p 00149000 69:03 204743                         /lib64/libc-2.5.so 
377e34d000-377e34e000 rw-p 0014d000 69:03 204743                         /lib64/libc-2.5.so 
377e34e000-377e353000 rw-p 377e34e000 00:00 0  
377e400000-377e402000 r-xp 00000000 69:03 204750                         /lib64/libdl-2.5.so 
377e402000-377e602000 ---p 00002000 69:03 204750                         /lib64/libdl-2.5.so 
377e602000-377e603000 r--p 00002000 69:03 204750                         /lib64/libdl-2.5.so 
377e603000-377e604000 rw-p 00003000 69:03 204750                         /lib64/libdl-2.5.so 
3780000000-378000d000 r-xp 00000000 69:03 204776                         /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080102.so.1 
378000d000-378020d000 ---p 0000d000 69:03 204776                         /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080102.so.1 
378020d000-378020e000 rw-p 0000d000 69:03 204776                         /lib64/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080102.so.1 
3af1200000-3af120d000 r-xp 00000000 69:03 204891                         /lib64/libproc-3.2.7.so 
3af120d000-3af140d000 ---p 0000d000 69:03 204891                         /lib64/libproc-3.2.7.so 
3af140d000-3af140e000 rw-p 0000d000 69:03 204891                         /lib64/libproc-3.2.7.so 
3af140e000-3af1422000 rw-p 3af140e000 00:00 0  
2b2e58ec9000-2b2e58eca000 rw-p 2b2e58ec9000 00:00 0  
2b2e58ed1000-2b2e58ed4000 rw-p 2b2e58ed1000 00:00 0  
2b2e58ed4000-2b2e5c4ac000 r--p 00000000 69:07 962551                     /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive 
2b2e5c4ac000-2b2e5c4cd000 rw-p 2b2e5c4ac000 00:00 0  
2b2e5c4cd000-2b2e5c4ce000 ---p 2b2e5c4cd000 00:00 0  
2b2e5c4ce000-2b2e5c4cf000 rw-p 2b2e5c4ce000 00:00 0  
2b2e5c4d5000-2b2e5c4df000 r-xp 00000000 69:03 204765                     /lib64/libnss_files-2.5.so 
2b2e5c4df000-2b2e5c6de000 ---p 0000a000 69:03 204765                     /lib64/libnss_files-2.5.so 
2b2e5c6de000-2b2e5c6df000 r--p 00009000 69:03 204765                     /lib64/libnss_files-2.5.so 
2b2e5c6df000-2b2e5c6e0000 rw-p 0000a000 69:03 204765                     /lib64/libnss_files-2.5.so 
2b2e5c6e0000-2b2e5c6e7000 r--s 00000000 69:07 160248                     /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.cache 
2b2e60000000-2b2e60021000 rw-p 2b2e60000000 00:00 0  
2b2e60021000-2b2e64000000 ---p 2b2e60021000 00:00 0  
7fff51bcc000-7fff51be1000 rw-p 7fff51bcc000 00:00 0                      [stack] 
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffffe00000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0                  [vdso] 

Signal 6 (ABRT) caught by ps (procps version 3.2.7