Sudo has racecondition leaving sudo with its zombie child running forever

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Sometimes when running a command using sudo, it never finishes. In that case the executed command already exited and is left as Zombie which is never collected by sudo.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
sudo-1.7.2p1-13.el5

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