SVN r339216 breaks ssh to i386 devices

Michael Butler imb at protected-networks.net
Tue Oct 9 20:54:20 UTC 2018


On 10/9/18 3:18 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Michael Butler <imb at protected-networks.net> writes:
>> Marek Zarychta <zarychtam at plan-b.pwste.edu.pl> writes:
>>> I have connected serial console to affected box and upgraded system
>>> from patched sources. I am sorry to say that this patch doesn't
>>> solve the issue for 32-bit ARM (RPi2). Still sshd terminates session
>>> with the error "fatal: mm_getpwnamallow: receive get struct passwd
>>> failed [preauth]".
>> My experience is similar - there maybe another 32/64-bit issue :-(
> 
> Correct, there is a size_t being passed as as an u64 as well.  That
> explains why arm32 was broken too, and not just i386.  The quick fix is
> to replace size_t with u_int64_t in sshbuf_get_passwd(), on line 513 of
> sshbuf-getput-basic.c (with my previous patch applied).  I have a full
> patch in the pipeline.

I can confirm that SVN r339263 solves this for me - thanks!

	imb



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