Call for testing: OpenSSH-5.7

[Damien Miller]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Damien Miller wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Kevin Brott wrote:
> 
> > Using openssh-SNAP-20110115.tar.gz
> 
> Thanks for the comprehensive testing.
> 
> > OS              Build_Target             CC               OpenSSL BUILDS
> > TESTS
> > ==============  ======================== ================ ======= ======
> > ======================
> > RHEL 2.1        i686-pc-linux-gnu        gcc 2.9.6         0.9.8o  *1*2*
> > FAILS *3* (5.6 passed)
> > RHEL 3.0 tu6    i686-pc-linux-gnu        gcc 3.2.3         0.9.7a   *2*
> >  FAILS *3* (5.6 passed)
> > RHEL 4.0 nu5    i686-pc-linux-gnu        gcc 3.4.6         0.9.7a   *2*
> >  FAILS *3* (5.6 passed)
> 
> These ones are surprising; I can't see any changes in the channels code
> that could explain the output truncation. I'm downloading various
> CentOS versions that should approximate these systems to try to recreate
> the failure.

I have replicated the problem on CentOS 3.9 and found the commit that
triggers it (http://hg.mindrot.org/openssh/rev/10166). It only seems to
affect SSH1, but I still don't understand why it fails though. 

-d