Bug 798330 - Hanging problem in sudo available with RHEL 6.1 and 6.2
Summary: Hanging problem in sudo available with RHEL 6.1 and 6.2
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 769701
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: sudo
Version: 6.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Daniel Kopeček
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-28 16:33 UTC by Allie DeVolder
Modified: 2018-11-27 20:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-02-28 16:39:31 UTC
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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 ***
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