Dropbear 2016.73

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Fri Mar 18 23:52:45 AWST 2016


Hi all,

Dropbear 2016.73 is released. It has a few new features and
other small improvements.

Download at https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html

Cheers,
Matt

2016.73 - 18 March 2016

- Support syslog in dbclient, option -o usesyslog=yes. Patch from Konstantin Tokarev

- Kill a proxycommand when dbclient exits, patch from Konstantin Tokarev

- Option to exit when a TCP forward fails, patch from Konstantin Tokarev

- New "-o" option parsing from Konstantin Tokarev. This allows handling some extra options
  in the style of OpenSSH, though implementing all OpenSSH options is not planned.

- Fix crash when fallback initshells() is used, reported by Michael Nowak and Mike Tzou

- Allow specifying commands eg "dropbearmulti dbclient ..." instead of symlinks

- Various cleanups for issues found by a lint tool, patch from Francois Perrad

- Fix tab indent consistency, patch from Francois Perrad

- Fix issues found by cppcheck, reported by Mike Tzou

- Use system memset_s() or explicit_bzero() if available to clear memory. Also make
  libtomcrypt/libtommath routines use that (or Dropbear's own m_burn()).

- Prevent scp failing when the local user doesn't exist. Based on patch from Michael Witten.

- Improved Travis CI test running, thanks to Mike Tzou

- Improve some code that was flagged by Coverity and Fortify Static Code Analyzer


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