Bug#4308: ssh and 256+ character pastes
Package: ssh
Version: 1.2.13-2
I pasted a 256 character string from my Emacs into an xterm running
`ssh chiark' and it froze. I did the same with a 257 character string
and it also froze, but didn't echo the 257th character. 255
characters did not freeze it. Killing the session with ``RETURN ~ .''
worked.
See also my recent bug report against netstd. It's possible that
these two bugs are related, though I find it entirely plausible that
they are separate errors.
muskogee:richard$ uname -a
Linux muskogee 2.0.13 #1 Tue Aug 20 18:45:22 BST 1996 i486
muskogee:richard$ su -c "ldd /usr/bin/ssh"
Password:
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1.0.3
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.18
muskogee:richard$ dpkg -l libc5
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii libc5 5.2.18-9 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr
muskogee:richard$ dpkg -l zlib1
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii zlib1 1.03-1 compression library - runtime
muskogee:richard$
At the server end (which has the same version of the ssh package):
chiark:richard$ uname -a
Linux chiark 2.0.0 #4 Sun Jul 14 00:57:42 BST 1996 i486
chiark:richard$ ldd /usr/sbin/sshd
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1.0.2
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.18
chiark:richard$ dpkg -l libc5
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii libc5 5.2.18-9 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr
chiark:richard$ dpkg -l zlib1
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii zlib1 1.02-3 compression library - runtime
chiark:richard$
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Richard Kettlewell richard@greenend.org.uk richard@elmail.co.uk
http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/
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