Call for testing: OpenSSH 7.8

Zev Weiss zev at bewilderbeest.net
Sat Aug 11 03:31:51 AEST 2018


On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 12:16:20PM CDT, Damien Miller wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, Zev Weiss wrote:
>
>> Also x86_64 here (Core i7-4771, for what it's worth).  I too have 4.17
>> installed, I just haven't yet gotten around to actually running it, so 4.14 is
>> what's presently live on the system.  If you want I think you should be able
>> to replicate that aspect via 'xbps-install linux4.14' (and then of course
>> booting said kernel).
>
>I booted to linux-4.14 and test_kex still passes. Have you twiddled any
>sysctls related to ASLR or security?
>
>-d

The only entry in my /etc/sysctl.conf is kernel.yama.ptrace_scope = 0; 
kernel.randomize_va_space is at its default value of 2.

I'm a bit busy at the moment, but I'll hopefully be able to dig in with 
a debugger and investigate in more detail sometime in the next couple 
days.


Zev



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