Call for testing: OpenSSH 7.4

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Wed Jan 4 17:27:02 AEDT 2017


On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Jakub Jelen wrote:

> > Further investigation so far showed, that the multiplex is failing to create
> > the remote port forward socket:
> > 
> > mux_client_forward: forwarding request failed: remote port forwarding failed
> > for listen path /root/openssh/regress/unix-3.fwd
> This is obviously related to the commit (fix for CVE-2016-10010):
> 
>     https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/b737e4
> 
> preventing running the multiplex.sh test (remote port forwarding is failing)
> with root permissions (stops using privilege separation at
> 
> https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/sshd.c#L640

Thanks, I committed a fix to allow root to do Unix socket forwarding.

-d


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