Staring from glibc 2.17 the crypt() function will error out and return NULL if the seed or "correct" is invalid. The failure case for this is the sudo user having a locked account in /etc/shadow, so their password is "!", which is an invalid hash. crypt() never returned NULL previously so this is crashing in strcmp(). Upstream-Status: Pending Signed-off-by: Ross Burton Index: sudo-1.8.6p7/plugins/sudoers/auth/passwd.c =================================================================== --- sudo-1.8.6p7.orig/plugins/sudoers/auth/passwd.c 2013-04-11 15:26:28.456416867 +0100 +++ sudo-1.8.6p7/plugins/sudoers/auth/passwd.c 2013-04-11 15:31:31.156421718 +0100 @@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ */ epass = (char *) crypt(pass, pw_epasswd); pass[8] = sav; - if (HAS_AGEINFO(pw_epasswd, pw_len) && strlen(epass) == DESLEN) + if (epass == NULL) + error = AUTH_FAILURE; + else if (HAS_AGEINFO(pw_epasswd, pw_len) && strlen(epass) == DESLEN) error = strncmp(pw_epasswd, epass, DESLEN); else error = strcmp(pw_epasswd, epass);