internal error: assertion failed

I just installed the Intel c++ compiler in linux and tried to compile our application. It starts the compilation ok, successfully compiling several of the source files until it reaches a point where it throws this weird error:

/usr/include/c++/6.2.1/bits/stl_uninitialized.h(573): internal error: assertion failed at: "shared/cfe/edgcpfe/types.c", line 2409

        return __uninitialized_default_n_1<__is_trivial(_ValueType)
                                                        ^

compilation aborted for /home/jose/src/simulator/shwfs_init.cpp (code 4)

I have no idea what this means. The error does not seem to relate to our code at all. Btw, the code works fine with gcc.

$ icpc -v
icpc version 17.0.0 (gcc version 6.2.1 compatibility)

$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.2.1/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: /build/gcc-multilib/src/gcc/configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=https://bugs.archlinux.org/ --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-libmpx --with-system-zlib --with-isl --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libssp --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --enable-lto --enable-plugin --enable-install-libiberty --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-checking=release
Thread model: posix
gcc version 6.2.1 20160830 (GCC)