Re: fatal regression in openssh (1:6.0p1-4+deb7u8) elts for 7/wheezy

[Микаел Бак <mikael.bak@yandex.ru>]

Hi,

On 2018-09-17 10:58, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After upgrading openssh on debian 7/wheezy from 6.0p1-4+deb7u7 to 6.0p1-4+deb7u8,
> we see
>
>   Sep 17 10:47:13 host sshd[124622]: Failed publickey for root from 1.2.3.4 port 39792 ssh2
>   Sep 17 10:47:13 host sshd[124622]: fatal: xfree: NULL pointer given as argument [preauth]
>
> .  Login fails:
>
>   joostvb@home:~% ssh root@host
>   Authentication failed.
>
> .  Downgrading back to 6.0p1-4+deb7u7 restores login functionality.
>
> Behaviour observed on 2 of our machines.  Possibly more debug information
> available; please ask.

I also get the same error on all my wheezy servers after updating the 
openssh-server package. All of them are LXC containers running on a 
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host. Perhaps it has something to do with it.

Cheers,
Mikael