On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:49:06AM +0100, Jonathan Amery wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:50:10PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > [Please preserve the X-Debbugs-CC line] > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > Ben Collins writes: > > > > And as I've said in the past numerous times. The fact that every other > > > > IPv6 using program (including apache, bind, telnet, etc.) get this > > > > right, and sshd doesn't, isn't libc's fault. > > > > > > > > I've pushed this over to sshd, and we wont accept the error here. > > > ssh is using getpeername() in accordance with the manual. The > > > structure that getpeername() returns is causing gatenameinfo() to > > > barf. That seems to me to be unambiguously a bug. > > Only because kernel 2.2 is broken, not becuase glibc is. The reason is > > because kernel 2.2 uses an old obsolete api. > > Firstly - this is not a bug in sshd - sshd is interacting with libc's > API in good faith. > > Secondly - it is the job of libc to ensure that the APIs it exposes > function correctly. If the IPv6 code in 2.2 is incompatible with > these APIs then libc should not be attempting to provide IPv6 on > systems with a 2.2 kernel, rather than functioning outside of the APIs > that it claims to implement.
No, sshd should be checking the validity of the data that is returned to it. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
