Bug 798330

Summary:	Hanging problem in sudo available with RHEL 6.1 and 6.2
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Allie DeVolder <adevolder>
Component:	sudo	Assignee:	Daniel Kopeček <dkopecek>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version:	6.2	CC:	skamble
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Description Allie DeVolder 2012-02-28 16:33:10 UTC

Description of problem:

Sometimes sudo enters in an endless blocking state and never exits. The
called program finishes successfully, but is left in "zombie" state.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.7.4

How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow steps available on http://blog.famzah.net/2010/11/01/sudo-hangs-and-leaves-the-executed-program-as-zombie/
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Actual results:
System hangs

Expected results:
no hang

Additional info:

This is already fixed in upstream sudo:
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=447

Comment 1 Daniel Kopeček 2012-02-28 16:39:31 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 769701 ***