Bug 690391

Summary:	When you send two SIGHUP signals to sshd in quick succession (to reload it configuration), sshd dies.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Brad Hubbard <bhubbard>
Component:	openssh	Assignee:	Jan F. Chadima <jchadima>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	bhubbard, cmedeiro, mvadkert, sgrubb, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	6.1
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	openssh-5.3p1-51.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	682670

Description Brad Hubbard 2011-03-24 07:40:43 UTC

Description of problem:
When you send two SIGHUP signals to sshd in quick succession (to reload it configuration), sshd dies.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
At will.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. killall -s SIGHUP sshd && killall -s SIGHUP sshd
2. service sshd status
3.
  
Actual results:
openssh-daemon dead but pid file exists

Expected results:
openssh-daemon (pid  2522) is running...

Additional info:

Comment 4 Jan F. Chadima 2011-03-30 14:19:33 UTC

added to openssh-5.3p1-51

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:31:05 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0598.html