Bug 872740
| Summary: | SPACE INVADES SUDO! | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | seth vidal <svidal> |
| Component: | sudo | Assignee: | Daniel Kopeček <dkopecek> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Aleš Mareček <amarecek> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 6.3 | CC: | amarecek, ksrot, pvrabec, tcallawa, tlavigne |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | sudo-1.8.6p3-5.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
Cause:
Spaces in the command arguments are not being escaped before passing them to the specified command.
Consequence:
Wrong arguments passed to the specified command.
Fix:
Rebase to new upstream version where the escaping of command arguments is done correctly again.
Result:
Command arguments specified on the command line are passed to the command as expected.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-02-21 09:44:53 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
We are rebasing to 1.8.6p3 in rhel-6.4 so this is going to be fixed. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0363.html |
Description of problem: When you use sudo -i and you pass in a command w/arguments that include spaces the wrong arguments are passed to the command b/c the spaces are not escaped. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sudo-1.7.4p5-13.el6_3.x86_64 How reproducible: to test try this: sudo -i -- python -c 'import sys; print sys.argv' on a rhel6 system it will output: File "<string>", line 1 import ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax On fedora 16, 17, or 18 you can do the same command and get back: sudo -i -- python -c 'import sys; print sys.argv' ['-c'] I've narrowed it down to being related to this patch: http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/4c88da5fc510 However I patched and rebuilt the sudo srpm from rhel6 with this patch and it just ended up segfaulting :( So I clearly missed something else important in the change set between 1.7.4 and 1.7.7. However, I rebuild 1.8.6p3 from fedora18 in mock for rhel6 and the resulting pkg (which built perfectly) works as expected.