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



Hi Roberto,

Op Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 01:53:59PM +0200 schreef Joost van Baal-Ilić:
> Op Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 07:50:00AM -0400 schreef Roberto C. Sánchez:
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:00:48PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> > > Op Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:49:12AM +0200 schreef Микаел Бак:
> > > > On 2018-09-17 10:58, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >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.
> > > 
> > > FWIW; here it is VMWare guests running a pretty regular Debian 7/wheezy.
> > > 
> > > Thanks, Bye,
> > > 
> > > Joost
> > > 
> > 
> > I am the developer who prepard the problematic openssh update.
> > 
> > I have been trying to reproduce this problem, but I cannot trigger the
> > failure described.  Prior to your two reports I had received a report
> > via direct email from another user experiencing the same symptons.
> > 
> > I tried a wheezy server running 1:6.0p1-4+deb7u7 and also
> > 1:6.0p1-4+deb7u8 (I setup a fresh VM just for this test) against clients
> > running wheezy (1:6.0p1-4+deb7u7 and 1:6.0p1-4+deb7u8) as well as a
> > jessie client.  Every single authentication attempt succeeded.
> > 
> > Do you think you could provide some additional information to help me
> > reproduce the problem?
> > 
> > - architecture
> > - sshd_config from server and ssh_config from client (and any
> >   ~/.ssh/config involved if that is a factor)
> > - complete server-side log output of a failed login attempt (after
> >   setting the log level to debug or something else suitably verbose)
> > - complete client-side console output of a failed login attempt run with
> >   the -vvv option to the ssh command
> > - any other information that may identify unique aspects of your setup
> >   that might in any way be related to the failure
> > 
> > If you prefer not share such via public list, please mail it to me
> > directly.  If you need to encrypt the email to me, my GPG key is
> > available in the Debian keyring (ID 0x7731FCCC63E4E277).
> 
> Collecting this information now.
> 
> Will send privately.

Oops:

 E: Version '1:6.0p1-4+deb7u8' for 'openssh-server' was not found

(Thanks Markus Koschany for acting so quick!)

Roberto: do you have that one available for me?  I can no longer find it.

Thanks, Bye,

Joost


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