bad buf_getbyte

Paul Fox pgf at brightstareng.com
Wed Jan 19 04:44:38 WST 2005


it seems that in between the time i a) read the archives, b) found
the bug, and c) subscribed to the list, that david found the problem
independently.  nice to see there's an active development effort
going on!  :-) 

paul

i wrote:
 >  > I'm getting "bad buf_getbyte" errors (and session closing) when
 >  > connecting from Solaris SSH to dropbearmulti
 > 
 > i got this too, using a java ssh client.  if your problem is the
 > same as mine, it's because of an apparent edit error in [what
 > used to be sessionpty(), but what is now] get_termmodes(), in
 > svr-chansession.c.
 > 
 > i believe there's a missing "return" at line 441:
 > 
 >         if (len == 0) {
 >                 TRACE(("leave get_termmodes: empty terminal modes string"))
 >  missing -->    return;
 >         }       
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > this begs a question for me -- how much upheaval was there in the
 > 0.44 release?  i'm planning on using dropbear in an application
 > that doesn't need client functionality.  should i stick with 0.43
 > for this use?
 > 

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 paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com



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