pformerge fail: *** glibc detected *** profmerge: double free or corruption

Product(s):
Up to Intel(R) Composer XE 2013 SP1 Update 2 for Linux*

Symptom:
If the profmerge tool is executed for a series of *.dyn files it might fail:

$ profmerge -prof_dir .
warning #30021: File './yyy.dyn' corrupt, ignored.
*** glibc detected *** profmerge: double free or corruption (top): 0x0000000000eb5460 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
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Root Cause:
This only occurs if one *.dyn file is of size 0, e.g.:

echo ""> yyy.dyn # empty!
$ profmerge -prof_dir .
warning #30021: File './yyy.dyn' corrupt, ignored.*** glibc detected *** profmerge: double free or corruption (top): 0x0000000002216460 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
...

Workaround:
To avoid such faults, please remove empty *.dyn files and run the profmerge tool again. The profmerge tool also inform you about such invalid files, e.g.:

warning #30021: File './yyy.dyn' corrupt, ignored.

Status:
[13-03-2014] A ticket was filed: DPD200516926