From 8faf432499ba9ae9bcd6f91e5b20b42cf0e335f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@sudo.ws>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 09:21:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fall back to "localhost" if gethostname() fails.

GitHub issue #332
---
 plugins/sudoers/sethost.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/sudoers/sethost.c b/plugins/sudoers/sethost.c
index bfbb69ff8..37545a6ea 100644
--- a/plugins/sudoers/sethost.c
+++ b/plugins/sudoers/sethost.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 #include <config.h>
 
+#include <errno.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -47,10 +48,13 @@ sudoers_sethost(struct sudoers_context *ctx, const char *host,
     ctx->user.host = NULL;
     ctx->user.shost = NULL;
 
-    if (host == NULL)
+    if (host == NULL) {
 	ctx->user.host = sudo_gethostname();
-    else
+	if (ctx->user.host == NULL && errno != ENOMEM)
+	    ctx->user.host = strdup("localhost");
+    } else {
 	ctx->user.host = strdup(host);
+    }
     if (ctx->user.host == NULL)
 	    goto oom;
     if ((cp = strchr(ctx->user.host, '.')) != NULL) {