Bug 844978 - Sudo has racecondition leaving sudo with its zombie child running forever
Summary: Sudo has racecondition leaving sudo with its zombie child running forever
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: sudo
Version: 5.8
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Daniel Kopeček
QA Contact: Dalibor Pospíšil
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Depends On: 829263
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-01 11:49 UTC by RHEL Program Management
Modified: 2022-07-09 05:44 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: sudo-1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Prior to this update, a race condition bug existed in sudo. When a program was executed with sudo, the program could possibly exit successfully before sudo started waiting for it. In this situation, the program would be left in a zombie state and sudo would wait for it endlessly, expecting it to still be running.
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 16:54:07 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1149 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: sudo security and bug fix update 2012-08-07 20:52:26 UTC

Description RHEL Program Management 2012-08-01 11:49:46 UTC 
This bug has been copied from bug #829263 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.8 z-stream (EUS).
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2012-08-07 16:54:07 UTC 
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/RHSA-2012-1149.html
Comment 8 Murray McAllister 2012-08-13 04:25:41 UTC 
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Prior to this update, a race condition bug existed in sudo. When a program was executed with sudo, the program could possibly exit successfully before sudo started waiting for it. In this situation, the program would be left in a zombie state and sudo would wait for it endlessly, expecting it to still be running.
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