I first noticed it with my 10.10 machine but also got the same behavior with 10.11. I'm getting an error of this variant:
srch_strings(2275,0x7fff796d5000) malloc: *** error for object 0x7f95894032e0: pointer being freed was not allocated
Originally had sleuthkit installed via homebrew, I tried uninstalling and installing from source with same results. I've noticed it throws this error message whenever it encounters a new line character. If I do a search that yields no strings it won't throw an error, e.g. if I do
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srch_strings -e b newfile.txt
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└─ $ ▶ cat newfile.txt
## first line of text here
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">
## end of text
└─ $ ▶ srch_strings newfile.txt
## first line of text here
srch_strings(3874,0x7fff796d5000) malloc: *** error for object 0x7f82d8f00100: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
<!DOAbort trap: 6
-Please let me know if you have any ideas
// jmonmane