sudo crashed with SIGSEGV in getaddrinfo()

Bug #312836 reported by Raphaël F.
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: sudo

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

 apt-cache policy sudo
sudo:
  Installé : 1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.3
  Candidat : 1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.3
  Table de version :
 *** 1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

I just wanted to use SUDO command but a segmentation fault occured. Note that I had a problem with /etc/hosts file that contained more than 287.500 lines that made the session crashing. Removing hosts file corrected the problem.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/sudo
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ath_hal
Package: sudo 1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.3 [modified: usr/bin/sudoedit usr/bin/sudo usr/sbin/visudo]
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: sudo -u rflores gconftool --get /system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 SHELL=/bin/sh
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: sudo
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 getaddrinfo () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: sudo crashed with SIGSEGV in getaddrinfo()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-22-generic i686
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Raphaël F. (rflores) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic stack trace

StacktraceTop:gaih_inet () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
getaddrinfo () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
?? ()
?? ()
__libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic threaded stack trace
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