Photoshop crashing left and right ("pointer being freed was not allocated")

I see a lot of posts about crashes on here but not a lot of useful replies. I'm hoping my try will yield something different.
I've been using PS for well over a decade and for the past few weeks suddenly Photoshop CS6 Extended is crashing at the drop of a hat. There isn't a single trigger. Sometimes it's opening a PSD. Most of the time it's when trying to save a PSD. Occasionally it's when trying to "Replace Contents" on a layer. Here and there it's when moving content on a layer. The one consistent thing is there is always a trigger. It's not just crashing when nothing is going on.
I have tried:
deleting "Adobe Photoshop CS6 Prefs.psp"
creating a new user (still crashes under them)
fixing disk permissions
verifying the memory is "OK"
I have not tried:
Reinstalling PS CS6 Extended
A clean reinstall of OSX
Gutting a chicken and reading the entrails
I am running:
OSX 10.9.2
Macbook Pro Retina
2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Crash report begins this way:
Process:         Adobe Photoshop CS6 [26364]
Path:            /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS6/Adobe Photoshop CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Photoshop CS6
Identifier:      com.adobe.Photoshop
Version:         13.0.6 (13.0.6.54)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [420]
Responsible:     Adobe Photoshop CS6 [26364]
User ID:         501
Date/Time:       2014-05-21 17:05:03.584 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: A5E58A24-068B-CA3B-E336-55CFA24B720A
Sleep/Wake UUID: F844FCAB-D28A-423D-A997-089D64ECD28B
Crashed Thread: 0 Main Thread Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
abort() called
*** error for object 0x12df69400: pointer being freed was not allocated

Thanks for the prompt reply. 10.9.3 updated.
Nothing I do will let me post the full crash log. I thought of breaking it up into chunks but I get lost in the Binary Images part and can't be sure where I left off. I put a copy up here: http://thomassola.com/crash02.txt

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