Fixed in Feisty by merging this change from Debian:

pam (0.79-3.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer upload to fix important bug, that makes passwd segfault
    when CTRL-D is pressed at the password prompt.  Applied the patch
    provided by Dann Frazier.  (Closes: #360657)

 -- Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Sat,  5 Aug 2006 02:11:22
-0300

I don't think this is a security issue, as you can't get an arbitrary
pointer in there - all you can do is make it dereference a null pointer,
which will immediately raise SIGSEGV.

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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/usr/bin/passwd crashes with a segmentation fault if given null input
https://launchpad.net/bugs/59730

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