cups-browsed aborts or segfaults in RHEL 7.9

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • The cups-browsed service has failed. The status of the service is:

    # systemctl status cups-browsed.service
    ● cups-browsed.service - Make remote CUPS printers available locally
       Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups-browsed.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
       Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Wed 2020-11-04 17:43:45 ACDT; 2h 58min ago
      Process: 17324 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cups-browsed (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)
     Main PID: 17324 (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)
    
  • cups-browsed is aborting and/or segfaulting. The system messages /var/log/messages or systemd journal include entries like the following:

    kernel: cups-browsed[14986]: segfault at 5f82f254 ip 00007f1665bb9aec sp 00007ffc86720a78 error 4 in libc-2.17.so[7f1665b34000+1c3000]
    systemd: cups-browsed.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV
    systemd: Unit cups-browsed.service entered failed state.
    systemd: cups-browsed.service failed.
    

    or

    cups-browsed: *** Error in `/usr/sbin/cups-browsed': munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x00005635f9bf1cd0 ***
    systemd: cups-browsed.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
    systemd: Unit cups-browsed.service entered failed state.
    systemd: cups-browsed.service failed.
    

    or

    cups-browsed: *** Error in `/usr/sbin/cups-browsed': free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x000055ebf85ab920 ***
    

    or

    kernel: traps: cups-browsed[59918] general protection ip:7f73478c8079 sp:7ffc47122e20 error:0 in libc-2.17.so[7f734787b000+1c4000]
    

    or

    kernel: cups-browsed[548]: segfault at 60d8248f ip 00007f919041de1d sp 00007ffc15edbe30 error 4 in libcups.so.2[7f91903d2000+63000]
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.9
  • cups-filters-1.0.35-28.el7.x86_64

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