ssh 'connection reset by peer' problem since 5.8p1

[Oren Held]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:15:35PM +0200, Oren Held wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 01:42:45AM +1100, Darren Tucker wrote:
> > On 17/02/11 12:52 AM, Oren Held wrote:
> > [...]
> > >One more note: the problem occurs when SSHing to *older* servers (I tried 4.3p2,
> > >5.1p1). When SSHing to v5.8p1 it works smoothly.
> > 
> > I have tried to reproduce with fresh-built 4.3p1 and 5.1p1 servers
> > and failed.  Are the servers configured with any non-default options
> > or source code changes?

[...]
> 
> I'm starting to suspect it has to do with some library and not openssh itself.
> ldd spotted some notable difference:
> Server is linked to libcrypto.so.6 (RHEL5 default)
> Client is linkde to libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (Debian sid default)

Additionally, I've refined the diff's: 5.6p1 connects perfectly well to all
ssh servers, the problem begins with 5.7p1.