Possible ssh -D bug in 5.8p1 (on Gentoo Linux)

[Brother Railgun of Reason]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 07:57:55AM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Brother Railgun of Reason wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 12:26:08PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> > > OpenSSH 5.8 has just been released. It will be available from the
> > > mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.
> > 
> > I seem to have found a bug in 5.8p1.
[...]

> That's pretty unlikely, because there was no channels or forwarding-
> related code changed between 5.7 and 5.8. If you aren't using SELinux,
> the substantive diff is literally one line in the key certification code.

Seems the problem was specific to the Gentoo net-misc/openssh-5.8p1 
ebuild.  It is fixed in net-misc/openssh-5.8p1-r1.


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