Multipath crashes with the error "*** glibc detected *** multipath: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000000 ***"

Issue

• Multipath crashes whenever executing any multipath command with below error

$ sudo multipath -ll
*** glibc detected *** multipath: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000008e6ad0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6[0x3eac275f4e]
/lib64/libc.so.6[0x3eac278cad]
/lib64/libdevmapper.so.1.02(dm_task_destroy+0x4a)[0x31ec2414fa]
/lib64/libmultipath.so(dm_get_info+0x97)[0x31ec60f877]
/lib64/libmultipath.so(dm_get_maps+0x13d)[0x31ec61026d]
multipath[0x402227]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x3eac21ed5d]
multipath[0x401aa9]
======= Memory map: ========