"Bad packet length 1231976033"

[Darren Tucker]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 at 03:36, Philip Prindeville
<philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 10, 2023, at 7:24 AM, Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> wrote:
[...]
> > Since you're using 9.1, the message could be an "Invalid free", since
> > there was a double-free bug in that release :-(
>
> Forgot to ask: does this bug manifest at any particular time, or just connection initiation?
> Because I can see it happen on a connection that's been up for days... either idle or experiencing heavy traffic... etc.

Only at connection initiation, and only when the client is an old
version of PuTTY that doesn't support the modern form of the
diffie-hellman group exchange protocol.

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