diff -up sudo-1.8.6p3/plugins/sudoers/visudo.c.cyclesegv sudo-1.8.6p3/plugins/sudoers/visudo.c
--- sudo-1.8.6p3/plugins/sudoers/visudo.c.cyclesegv	2013-01-23 12:15:32.493762418 +0100
+++ sudo-1.8.6p3/plugins/sudoers/visudo.c	2013-01-23 12:40:52.280432614 +0100
@@ -1075,18 +1075,16 @@ alias_remove_recursive(char *name, int t
     bool rval = true;
     debug_decl(alias_remove_recursive, SUDO_DEBUG_ALIAS)
 
-    if ((a = alias_find(name, type)) != NULL) {
+    if ((a = alias_remove(name, type)) != NULL) {
 	tq_foreach_fwd(&a->members, m) {
 	    if (m->type == ALIAS) {
 		if (!alias_remove_recursive(m->name, type))
 		    rval = false;
 	    }
 	}
+	rbinsert(alias_freelist, a);
     }
     alias_seqno++;
-    a = alias_remove(name, type);
-    if (a)
-	rbinsert(alias_freelist, a);
     debug_return_bool(rval);
 }