segfault RH EL5 /dev/urandom read-only

[Matt Johnston]

That's a bit unfortunate, I've fixed it in https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/73b6e5d8801b

Cheers,
Matt

Scott Case <scase at vccs.edu> wrote:

>I just built the 2013.56 release and am receiving segfaults on startup.
>The offending line is the fwrite() in random.c in write_urandom().
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>Our RHEL 5 servers appear to have /dev/urandom as read-only.  I am
>guessing that is likely the root cause.
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>Commenting out the internals of write_urandom() stopped the segfault.  
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>Maybe a build flag to avoid writing to /dev/urandom would be
>appropriate
>for some platforms?
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>Thanks,
>
>Scott
>
> 
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