Bug#471849: openssh-client: drops connections with "Corrupted MAC on input." errors when loads of data get transferred

[Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>]

Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:4.7p1-2
Severity: normal


drops connections with "Corrupted MAC on input." errors when loads of data get transferred

output (ssh -vvv):
Disconnecting: Corrupted MAC on input.
debug3: channel 0: close_fds r 4 w 5 e 6 c -1

This happens when connecting to 'OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-2, OpenSSL 0.9.8g
19 Oct 2007' on 32bit as well as 64bit.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23pps-nodeb.pps-nodeb (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages openssh-client depends on:
ii  adduser               3.106              add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.19             Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                  1.14.16.6          package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                 2.7-6              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2            1.40.6-1           common error description library
ii  libedit2              2.9.cvs.20050518-4 BSD editline and history libraries
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libncurses5           5.6+20080203-1     Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8g-7           SSL shared libraries
ii  passwd                1:4.1.0-2          change and administer password and
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11  compression library - runtime

openssh-client recommends no packages.

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