Bug 393

Summary:	sudo's #include functionality doesn't handle cycles
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	low
Version:	1.7.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Todd C. Miller 2010-02-09 10:47:20 MST

Given the following /etc/sudoers file:

#include /etc/sudoers.local

Where the included file also has:

#include /etc/sudoers

sudo will keep opening and parsing the files until it runs out of file descriptors.  It should check the list of currently open include files and refuse to open one that is already open.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2010-02-09 11:12:22 MST

Actually, sudo will only open a max of 128 sudoers files at any one time so it will not consume all descriptors.