diff --git a/shadow-4.8.1-useradd_create_relative_home_path_correctly.patch b/shadow-4.8.1-useradd_create_relative_home_path_correctly.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a318f7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shadow-4.8.1-useradd_create_relative_home_path_correctly.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+diff -up shadow-4.8.1/src/useradd.c.useradd_create_relative_home_path_correctly shadow-4.8.1/src/useradd.c
+--- shadow-4.8.1/src/useradd.c.useradd_create_relative_home_path_correctly	2021-06-28 16:10:23.928435372 +0200
++++ shadow-4.8.1/src/useradd.c	2021-06-28 16:11:30.784495046 +0200
+@@ -2140,7 +2140,6 @@ static void create_home (void)
+ 							Prog, user_home);
+ 			fail_exit (E_HOMEDIR);
+ 		}
+-		++bhome;
+ 
+ #ifdef WITH_SELINUX
+ 		if (set_selinux_file_context (prefix_user_home, NULL) != 0) {
+@@ -2157,7 +2156,11 @@ static void create_home (void)
+ 		 */
+ 		cp = strtok (bhome, "/");
+ 		while (cp) {
+-			strcat (path, "/");
++                        /* Avoid turning a relative path into an absolute path.
++                         */
++                        if (bhome[0] == '/' || strlen (path) != 0) {
++			        strcat (path, "/");
++                        }
+ 			strcat (path, cp);
+ 			if (access (path, F_OK) != 0) {
+ 				/* Check if parent directory is BTRFS, fail if requesting
diff --git a/shadow-utils.spec b/shadow-utils.spec
index a5badbb..20830e6 100644
--- a/shadow-utils.spec
+++ b/shadow-utils.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: Utilities for managing accounts and shadow password files
 Name: shadow-utils
 Version: 4.8.1
-Release: 14%{?dist}
+Release: 15%{?dist}
 Epoch: 2
 URL: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow
 Source0: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/releases/download/%{version}/shadow-%{version}.tar.xz
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ Patch62: shadow-4.8.1-salt_c_sanitize_code.patch
 Patch63: shadow-4.8.1-salt_c_comments.patch
 # https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/bc8257cf73328e450511b13cbd35e1994feccb30
 Patch64: shadow-4.8.1-salt_c_use_dev_urandom.patch
+# https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/2c542f6c65f858b3dba20f58db4da56572f67a54
+Patch65: shadow-4.8.1-useradd_create_relative_home_path_correctly.patch
 
 License: BSD and GPLv2+
 BuildRequires: make
@@ -203,6 +205,7 @@ Development files for shadow-utils-subid.
 %patch62 -p1 -b .sanitize_code
 %patch63 -p1 -b .comments
 %patch64 -p1 -b .use_dev_urandom
+%patch65 -p1 -b .useradd_create_relative_home_path_correctly
 
 iconv -f ISO88591 -t utf-8  doc/HOWTO > doc/HOWTO.utf8
 cp -f doc/HOWTO.utf8 doc/HOWTO
@@ -372,6 +375,9 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libsubid.la
 %{_libdir}/libsubid.so
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jun 29 2021 Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com> - 2:4.8.1-15
+- useradd: free correct pointer (#1976809)
+
 * Mon Jun 28 2021 Björn Esser <besser82@fedoraproject.org> - 2:4.8.1-14
 - Add a patch to fix the used prefix for the bcrypt hash method
 - Add a patch to cleanup the code in libmisc/salt.c