tags 247538 fixed-upstream thanks On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:24:44PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Package: ssh > Version: 1:3.8p1-3 > Severity: important > > When ssh creates a tty with a number greater than 999, it does not > remove it correctly from utmp. The problem is that ssh uses at one place > a 8-chars buffer while everywhere else it uses larger buffers: since > "pts/1234\0" is more than 8 chars long, it is truncated. > > The problem shows probably on *very* loaded login servers, but it shows > also on 2.6.4+ kernels, where the tty numbers are never reused. > > If the line > > char line[8]; > > in loginrec.c:1357 becomes > > char line[UT_LINESIZE]; > > that fixes the problem.
This has been fixed in OpenSSH 3.8.1p1, which I'll be uploading to unstable shortly. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
