Dropbear 2024.86

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Tue Oct 22 22:58:38 AWST 2024


Hi all,

Dropbear 2024.86 is released, with a few small fixes and
improvements.

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

Cheers,
Matt

2024.86 - 22 October 2024

- Fix failure on concurrent channel open/close.
  This was a regression in 2022.82, reported by rsflo in Github #321.
    failed assertion in common-channel.c:705: !channel->sent_close

- Print remote host after "Login attempt for nonexistent user" log entry to
  assist fail2ban. Fix from MichaIng, the format changed in 2020.79

- Dropbear now exits with exit status 0 on SIGINT/SIGTERM. This is a more
  graceful behaviour for "systemctl stop dropbear".
  Reported by Ninad Palsule

- New IDENT_VERSION_PART config allows customising some of the SSH version
  string. From Marius Dinu

- Fix building SK_KEYS with just one of ECDSA or ED25519
  From Marius Dinu

- Fix dbclient "-m help" and "-c help" without a hostname.
  Patch from Darren Tucker

- Remove fprintf/gettimeofday from sigchld handler when running with
  verbose trace enabled.

- Improved configure help output, from Mikel Olasagasti Uranga

- Compile fix for GNU Hurd, from Guilhem Moulin

- Support running test_aslr without venv, from Guilhem Moulin

- Compilation fixes for older compilers, and better build tests

- Update some test infrastructure versions of python packages,
  github actions, and github runner OSes


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