Cannot connect to OpenSSH 2.5.1p1

[John Horne]

On 20-Feb-01 at 15:11:15 Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> I've installed today the openssh-2.5.1p1 from RPMS and I cannot use it
> with protocol 2. It gives:
> 
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> debug: Sending SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT.
> debug: Wait SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY.
> Connection closed by 10.1.1.1
> debug: Calling cleanup 0x805efd0(0x0)
> 
> And the conenction is dropped. The server says in the log:
> 
> Feb 20 17:01:41 server sshd[5525]: fatal: xfree: NULL pointer given as
> argument
> 
I got this last night when trying to login to my work PC from home. The
problem seemed to stem from the fact that I tried to install openssl 0.9.6
rpms at work yesterday (with openssh 2.3.1 (I think) rpms). I've gone back to
openssl 0.9.5a and am using openssh 2.5.1p1 rpms with no problem. On the
Sun's we have no problem with 0.9.6 and openssh 2.5.1p1 but they are
complied from source. I suspect that compling openssl and openssh both from
source on the linux box will sort it out.

John.

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