Dropbear 2015.69

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Wed Nov 25 23:30:21 AWST 2015


Hi all,

It's the third Dropbear release this year, 2015.69.
The most important change is a fix for TCP forwarding that
broke in 2015.68 and affected a few people.

As usual downloads at
https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
and
https://dropbear.nl/mirror/

Cheers,
Matt

2015.69 - 25 November 2015

- Fix crash when forwarded TCP connections fail to connect (bug introduced in 2015.68)

- Avoid hang on session close when multiple sessions are started, affects Qt Creator
  Patch from Andrzej Szombierski

- Reduce per-channel memory consumption in common case, increase default
  channel limit from 100 to 1000 which should improve SOCKS forwarding for modern
  webpages

- Handle multiple command line arguments in a single flag, thanks to Guilhem Moulin

- Manpage improvements from Guilhem Moulin

- Build fixes for Android from Mike Frysinger

- Don't display the MOTD when an explicit command is run from Guilhem Moulin

- Check curve25519 shared secret isn't zero


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