Package: sudo
Version: 1.6.8p7-1.3
Severity: grave
Hi,
Since upgrading to this version from security.d.o, I can no longer run
sudo joe, it gives an instant segmentation fault and dumps core.
(gdb says the problem is in a fgets() and a series of ustat()s.)
Furthermore, visudo now ignores $EDITOR and seems to run the editor
alternative. You can imagine my utter horror when seeing the sudoers file
in the mc editor (which happens to register itself with a high schore in
the alternative).
You're not supposed to break shit in stable like this. That's what stable is
for - for new functionality to be avoided because it's potentially buggy.
I don't care if the underlying editor is actually broken or anything like
- if so, that is something that can be fixed in the next release and
documented in the Release Notes. Breaking it just because you decided that
this will fix some unrelated Python or Ruby issues is simply not the way.
Please unbreak my editor ASAP. TIA.
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