Privoxy stopped with an error message

[Frank Cox]

In common with everyone else (I assume), I have had Privoxy stop running for no
apparent reason at various times.

Today I see that I have an error message for the first time ever, which I will
post here in case it is of use or value to anyone:

*** glibc detected *** /usr/sbin/privoxy: malloc(): memory corruption:
0xb7fba008 *** ======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x9f2660]
/lib/libc.so.6(malloc+0x73)[0x9f3c74]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x9e2d4d]
/lib/libc.so.6(fopen+0x2c)[0x9e2e0e]
/lib/libnss_files.so.2[0xdd0f82]
/lib/libnss_files.so.2(_nss_files_gethostbyname_r+0x37)[0xdd1b87]
/lib/libc.so.6(gethostbyname_r+0x132)[0xa6ca62]
/usr/sbin/privoxy[0x805d129]
/usr/sbin/privoxy[0x805d574]
/usr/sbin/privoxy[0x805cda6]
/usr/sbin/privoxy[0x805e179]
/lib/libpthread.so.0[0xc2840b]
/lib/libc.so.6(__clone+0x5e)[0xa56b7e]
======= Memory map: ========


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