sudo crashed with SIGABRT in kill() when sudoing clinfo

My clinfo is erroring:

~$ clinfo
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cl::Error'
  what(): clGetPlatformIDs
Aborted (core dumped)

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I tried again as ~$sudo clinfo:
Got gui errors (one of which crashed sudo)

Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04

I expected to get the core dump somehow if I used sudo, since sudo brings up the gui. Maybe I'm off base there.

apt-cache policy clinfo
clinfo:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.1.16.01.12-1
  Version table:
     2.1.16.01.12-1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages

apt-cache policy sudo
sudo:
  Installed: 1.8.16-0ubuntu1.5
  Candidate: 1.8.16-0ubuntu1.5
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.16-0ubuntu1.5 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.8.16-0ubuntu1.4 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
     1.8.16-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: sudo 1.8.16-0ubuntu1.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-42.46~16.04.1-generic 4.10.17
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-42-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.14
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Dec 31 00:01:59 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/sudo
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-30 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
ProcCmdline: sudo clinfo
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: sudo
StacktraceTop:
 kill () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:84
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main (main=0x558548bbfa50, argc=2, argv=0x7fffde4df418, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffde4df408) at ../csu/libc-start.c:291
 ?? ()
Title: sudo crashed with SIGABRT in kill()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

VisudoCheck:
 /etc/sudoers: parsed OK
 /etc/sudoers.d/README: parsed OK