Re: NetBSD 4.0 sshd: protocol violation

Alan Barrett <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.crypto
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, der Mouse wrote:
> the core-dumped boolean was 0x80 (probably because that's the
> core-dumped bit in a wait() status), and of booleans RFC4251 says
> "applications MUST NOT store values other than 0 and 1".

Does this patch fix it?  If so, the change should be fed back to openssh.

Index: src/crypto/dist/ssh/session.c
--- session.c	10 Mar 2007 22:52:09 -0000	1.44
+++ session.c	19 Feb 2008 18:00:37 -0000
@@ -1998,7 +1998,7 @@
 	} else if (WIFSIGNALED(status)) {
 		channel_request_start(s->chanid, "exit-signal", 0);
 		packet_put_cstring(sig2name(WTERMSIG(status)));
-		packet_put_char(WCOREDUMP(status));
+		packet_put_char(WCOREDUMP(status) ? 1 : 0);
 		packet_put_cstring("");
 		packet_put_cstring("");
 		packet_send();
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