[sudo-users] visudo: internal error, tried to emalloc2(0)

[Michael W. Lucas]

Awesome, thank you!

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:12:30AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> This was a bug introduced in sudo 1.8.7.  The following will avoid
> the error.
> 
>  - todd
> 
> diff -r da3b2b06605c plugins/sudoers/visudo.c
> --- a/plugins/sudoers/visudo.c	Thu Aug 08 11:40:36 2013 -0600
> +++ b/plugins/sudoers/visudo.c	Sun Aug 11 10:11:38 2013 -0600
> @@ -221,6 +221,7 @@
>      sudo_setgrent();
>  
>      /* Mock up a fake sudo_user struct. */
> +    sudo_user.max_groups = -1;
>      user_cmnd = "";
>      if ((sudo_user.pw = sudo_getpwuid(getuid())) == NULL)
>  	fatalx(_("you do not exist in the %s database"), "passwd");

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