fill_lines is passed -1 for offset, which causes it to read the -1 index of traces. This is not valid memory as -1 is reading before the trace global variable in rb_print_backtrace. This code comes from commit 99d1f5f88b9b6de3124e31019902f91e030d334f, where there used to be special handling for the -1 index. We can see this error in ASAN: ==71037==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow on address 0x00010157abf8 at pc 0x00010116f3b8 bp 0x00016f92c3b0 sp 0x00016f92c3a8 READ of size 8 at 0x00010157abf8 thread T0 #0 0x10116f3b4 in debug_info_read addr2line.c:1945 #1 0x10116cc90 in fill_lines addr2line.c:2497 #2 0x101169dbc in rb_dump_backtrace_with_lines addr2line.c:2635 #3 0x100e56788 in rb_print_backtrace vm_dump.c:825 #4 0x100e56db4 in rb_vm_bugreport vm_dump.c:1155 #5 0x100734dc4 in rb_bug_without_die error.c:1085 #6 0x100734ae4 in rb_bug error.c:109