I had this issue when converting the ftp-wildcard example to my libcurl node.js bindings, which uses the multi interface internally for every request.

I got the following "standalone" (libuv is still required) application to reproduce the issue (it's mostly the multi-uv example with small modifications): https://gist.github.com/JCMais/3f8a570f04f50b38811bc99d47b06ab7

To run it: example.exe ftp://speedtest.tele2.net/*KB.zip

Line of code that is causing the access violation: https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/lib/ftplistparser.c#L320

Stack trace:

example.exe!ftp_pl_insert_finfo(connectdata * conn, curl_fileinfo * finfo) Line 320 C
example.exe!Curl_ftp_parselist(char * buffer, unsigned int size, unsigned int nmemb, void * connptr) Line 749 C
example.exe!Curl_client_chop_write(connectdata * conn, int type, char * ptr, unsigned int len) Line 434 C
example.exe!Curl_client_write(connectdata * conn, int type, char * ptr, unsigned int len) Line 511 C
example.exe!readwrite_data(SessionHandle * data, connectdata * conn, SingleRequest * k, int * didwhat, bool * done) Line 753 C
example.exe!Curl_readwrite(connectdata * conn, SessionHandle * data, bool * done) Line 1074 C
example.exe!multi_runsingle(Curl_multi * multi, timeval now, SessionHandle * data) Line 1544 C
example.exe!multi_socket(Curl_multi * multi, bool checkall, unsigned int s, int ev_bitmask, int * running_handles) Line 2291 C
example.exe!curl_multi_socket_action(void * multi_handle, unsigned int s, int ev_bitmask, int * running_handles) Line 2442 C
example.exe!curl_perform(uv_poll_s * req, int status, int events) Line 153 C
example.exe!uv__fast_poll_process_poll_req(uv_loop_s * loop, uv_poll_s * handle, uv_req_s * req) Line 214 C
example.exe!uv_process_poll_req(uv_loop_s * loop, uv_poll_s * handle, uv_req_s * req) Line 622 C
example.exe!uv_process_reqs(uv_loop_s * loop) Line 205 C
example.exe!uv_run(uv_loop_s * loop, uv_run_mode mode) Line 391 C
example.exe!main(int argc, char * * argv) Line 232 C
example.exe!invoke_main() Line 74 C++
example.exe!__scrt_common_main_seh() Line 264 C++
example.exe!__scrt_common_main() Line 309 C++
example.exe!mainCRTStartup() Line 17 C++
kernel32.dll!@BaseThreadInitThunk@12�() Unknown
ntdll.dll!__RtlUserThreadStart() Unknown
ntdll.dll!__RtlUserThreadStart@8�() Unknown

libcurl version:

curl 7.47.1-DEV (i386-pc-win32) libcurl/7.47.1-DEV OpenSSL/1.0.2e zlib/1.2.8 libssh2/1.6.1_DEV
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile SSPI Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM SSL libz

libuv version was the master one at https://github.com/libuv/libuv

Had this issue on Windows, I could not test on Unix but the issue is probably there too.