Cannot connect to OpenSSH 2.5.1p1

[Mark D. Baushke]

> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:49:40 -0000 (GMT)
> From: John Horne <J.Horne at plymouth.ac.uk>
>
> On 20-Feb-01 at 15:11:15 Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> > I've installed today the openssh-2.5.1p1 from RPMS and I cannot use it
> > with protocol 2. It gives:
> > 
> [snipped]
> > debug: Sending SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT.
> > debug: Wait SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY.
> > Connection closed by 10.1.1.1
> > debug: Calling cleanup 0x805efd0(0x0)
> > 
> > And the conenction is dropped. The server says in the log:
> > 
> > Feb 20 17:01:41 server sshd[5525]: fatal: xfree: NULL pointer given as
> > argument
> > 
> I got this last night when trying to login to my work PC from home. The
> problem seemed to stem from the fact that I tried to install openssl 0.9.6
> rpms at work yesterday (with openssh 2.3.1 (I think) rpms). I've gone back to
> openssl 0.9.5a and am using openssh 2.5.1p1 rpms with no problem. On the
> Sun's we have no problem with 0.9.6 and openssh 2.5.1p1 but they are
> complied from source. I suspect that compling openssl and openssh both from
> source on the linux box will sort it out.

I had a similar problem and recompiling from the sources fixed it.  I
am now using openssl-0.9.6 with openssh 2.5.1p1 with no problems on
Red Hat Linux 6.2.

	-- Mark