transformLaserScanToPointCloud segfault

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I have a laser scan coming in from SICK LMS200. I convert that scan to a point cloud as shown in the below function:

bool LaserScanListener::convertScanToPointCloud(sensor_msgs::LaserScan& scan){
 try
  {
      if(!buffer_.canTransform(base_link_, scan.header.frame_id,
                        scan.header.stamp + ros::Duration(scan.scan_time),
                        ros::Duration(TRANSFORM_WAIT_TIME)))
      {
          ROS_WARN_STREAM_THROTTLE(1.0, "LaserScanListener::convertScanToPointCloud: Failed to lookup tf from '"
                                                    << scan.header.frame_id << "' to '" << base_link_);
          return false;
      }
      lprojector_.transformLaserScanToPointCloud("base_link", scan, cloud, buffer_);
  }
  catch (const tf::TransformException &e)
  {
      ROS_WARN_STREAM_THROTTLE(1.0, "LaserScanListener::convertScanToPointCloud: TF returned a transform exception: " << e.what());
      return false;
  }

  try
  {
      pcl::PCLPointCloud2 pcl_pcl2;
      pcl_conversions::toPCL(cloud, pcl_pcl2);
      pcl::PointCloud<pcl::PointXYZ> pcl_cloud;
              pcl::fromPCLPointCloud2(pcl_pcl2, pcl_cloud);
      pcl_cloud_ = boost::make_shared<pcl::PointCloud<pcl::PointXYZ> >(pcl_cloud);
  }
  catch (const pcl::PCLException &e)
  {
      ROS_WARN_STREAM_THROTTLE( 1.0, "LaserScanListener::convertScanToPointCloud: Failed to convert a message to pcl type." << e.what());
      return false;
  }
  return true;

}

When running on the gazebo simulator this code block works fine, but on a real robot, segfault occurs. Below is the stack trace for the segfault:

        #0  0x00007ffff46fc428 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:54
                    #1  0x00007ffff46fe02a in __GI_abort () at abort.c:89
        #2  0x00007ffff473e7ea in __libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7ffff4857ed8 "*** Error in `%s': %s: 0x%s ***\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:175
        #3  0x00007ffff474737a in malloc_printerr (ar_ptr=<optimized out>, ptr=<optimized out>, str=0x7ffff4858030 "free(): invalid next size (normal)", action=3) at malloc.c:5006
        #4  _int_free (av=<optimized out>, p=<optimized out>, have_lock=0) at malloc.c:3867
        #5  0x00007ffff474b53c in __GI___libc_free (mem=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:2968
        #6  0x00007ffff79b5cbd in laser_geometry::LaserProjection::projectLaser_(sensor_msgs::LaserScan_<std::allocator<void> > const&, sensor_msgs::PointCloud2_<std::allocator<void> >&, double, int) ()
           from /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/liblaser_geometry.so
        #7  0x00007ffff79b6f0a in laser_geometry::LaserProjection::transformLaserScanToPointCloud_(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, sensor_msgs::LaserScan_<std::allocator<void> > const&, sensor_msgs::PointCloud2_<std::allocator<void> >&, tf2::Quaternion, tf2::Vector3, tf2::Quaternion, tf2::Vector3, double, int) () from /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/liblaser_geometry.so
        #8  0x00007ffff79b8d48 in laser_geometry::LaserProjection::transformLaserScanToPointCloud_(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, sensor_msgs::LaserScan_<std::allocator<void> > const&, sensor_msgs::PointCloud2_<std::allocator<void> >&, tf2::BufferCore&, double, int) () from /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/liblaser_geometry.so
        #9  0x000000000042d8d0 in laser_geometry::LaserProjection::transformLaserScanToPointCloud (channel_options=3, range_cutoff=-1, tf=..., cloud_out=..., scan_in=..., target_frame="base_link", this=0x7fffffffc3c0)
            at /opt/ros/kinetic/include/laser_geometry/laser_geometry.h:278
        #10 LaserScanListener::convertScanToPointCloud (this=this@entry=0x7fffffffc250, scan=...) at /home/ucmrobotics/inter_det_ws/src/intersection_detection/src/laserScanListener.cpp:97
        #11 0x000000000042ea25 in LaserScanListener::scanCallback (this=0x7fffffffc250, scan_in=...) at /home/ucmrobotics/inter_det_ws/src/intersection_detection/src/laserScanListener.cpp:40

Could anybody please help out how to solve this error?