[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#665836: openssh-server: segfault error 6 in libcrypto.so.1.0.0

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 09:20:47AM -0400, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
>> Package: openssh-server
>> Version: 1:5.9p1-4
>> Severity: important
>> 
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> 
>> When connecting to my home machine while forwarding ports, I keep getting
>> segfaults in sshd whenever the forwarded ports are used.  This includes
>> X forwarding.  The errors that appear in my syslog look like this:
>> 
>> Mar 26 09:11:41 maru kernel: sshd[9320]: segfault at b8749000 ip
>> b752f678 sp bfde6de0 error 6 in libcrypto.so.1.0.0[b74c6000+1a3000]
>> Mar 26 09:11:52 maru kernel: sshd[10647]: segfault at b81fa008 ip
>> b753b678 sp bf9d42d0 error 6 in libcrypto.so.1.0.0[b74d2000+1a3000]
>> Mar 26 09:11:56 maru kernel: sshd[10680]: segfault at b8563000 ip
>> b759b678 sp bfdff0a0 error 6 in libcrypto.so.1.0.0[b7532000+1a3000]
>
> I'm unable to reproduce this.
>
> I've tried using openssh-server 1:5.9p1-4 and libssl1.0.0 1.0.1-2 on the
> server side, openssh-client 1:5.9p1-3 and libssl1.0.0 1.0.0h-1 on
> the client side, and used ssh -X.

I am using OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 on the client side.
(This client worked in previous versions.)

> I'm using an RSA key if that has anything to do with it.

I am using a DSA key.

> I didn't try anything like -L or -R, should I try those?

Did you attempt to pull use the tunneled X connection?  Nothing failed
for me until I did.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(mwd at cert.org)