JVM flash during Java_java_net_NetworkInterface_getAll

Selenium-server requests all network interfaces at startup; unfortunately this results in JVM memory corruption and hard JVM crash on my Ubuntu machine. This can be reproduced on this computer with any java process calling java.net.NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces ()

Some things about the OS:

2.6.35-30-generic # 59-Ubuntu SMP
java version "1.6.0_26"
Java (TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)
Java HotSpot (TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.1-b02, mixed mode)

This machine has a number of virtual network interfaces and some static routes:
    virbr0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr fa: de: be: 41: c2: 23 
    tap248 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 0a: 9e: b3: 46: 48: b9

And grease

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.20.0.jar -role node -hub http://127.0.0.1:4444/grid/register

Mar 30, 2012 9:14:05 AM org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncher main

      

        
        
        
      

    

INFO: start selenium mesh node

*** glibc detected *** java: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x00007ffec0144cc0 ***

======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x774b6)[0x7ffecd56e4b6]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x73)[0x7ffecd574c83]
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre/lib/amd64/libnet.so(+0x5a96)[0x7ffec58dba96]
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre/lib/amd64/libnet.so(Java_java_net_NetworkInterface_getAll+0x8c)[0x7ffec58daf9c]
[0x7ffec87e3d6e]
======= Memory map: ========
40000000-40009000 r-xp 00000000 08:41 4473913                            /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre/bin/java
40108000-4010a000 rwxp 00008000 08:41 4473913                            /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre/bin/java