OPatch 11.1.0.10.1 on AIX: Unhandled exception (Segmentation error)

One thing that you don’t want to see while performing an update of a database with the OPatch utility is a SEGFAULT. In my scenario, I simply wanted to list all the installed patches for an ORACLE_HOME and therefore issued opatch lsinventory:

$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch
$ ./opatch lsinventory
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.1.0.10.1
Copyright (c) 2013, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Unhandled exception
Type=Segmentation error vmState=0x00060000
[..]
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