Fedora considered this symbol deprecated and doesn't export it, but apparently it's still needed on Debian.
The latest version of pam_mysql.so from Wheezy repo does indeed use make_scrambled_password.
i can confirm that on debian wheezy-amd64
it breaks my mailserver-setup :|
there're anecdotal evidences that ProFTPd crashes too. It may be the same issue or different.
I have two servers unable to send mail (also debian wheezy, one amd64, the other i386)...is anything be done about this (either here or at Debian)?
tonybaldwin it will be fixed in the next version, you can downgrade mariadb till the new version is released (have a look at http://pastie.org/8784056).
use apt-mark hold mariadb-client mariadb-server libmariadbclient18 to stop debian from upgrading again and apt-mark unhold mariadb-client mariadb-server libmariadbclient18 to undo after the new version is released.
Thank you! doing this now (downgrading).
I was instructed to roll stuff back, according to this: pastie.org/8784056
which worked.
URGENT! I have mariadb 10.0.9 version. Need to downgrade it so that make_srambled_password is included in libmysqlclient.so.18.
How can I achieve that? My mail/web server is down for this issue.
Plase help!!!
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Ok figured it out. Just use this repo to downgrade to version 10.0.8
deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/mariadb-10.0.8/repo/debian wheezy main
Ufff! What a mess.
This bug is really annoying one 
everytime i do a new installation (quite often as we are installing MariaDB on every VPS) i need to immediately do a downgrade to 5.5.35. Maybe you can release a 5.5.35.1 with only this one bug fixed, hm?
Yeah that would be great. You can also release 10.0.9.1 with this fix.