Bug#410599: openssh-server: scp dies with "fatal: buffer_append_space: alloc 10506240 not supported" when using control sockets and compression

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

forwarded 410599 http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1131
tags 410599 fixed-upstream
thanks

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:20:11PM +1100, Kris Shannon wrote:
> I connect to most of our servers from my laptop with "ssh -4MANf servername"
> in the morning, and then use the open control connection for the rest of
> the day.
> 
> If I try to scp using this control connection (specifically the
> debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso) it dies pretty quickly with
> "fatal: buffer_append_space: alloc 10506240 not supported" in
> /var/log/auth.log

This looks like upstream bug
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1131, which is fixed in 4.4.
I'll be uploading 4.6 soon, and will close this bug with that; would you
mind testing with that when it's available and let me know if your
problem still occurs?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]