Hi

What happens if a received SSH packet is greater than the max length for 
received packets? From something I have seen in the code (common-channel) I am 
concerned that this causes dropbear to simply terminate. My concern is that 
this leaves dropbear implementations open to DOS attacks. I am not an expert in 
C and the code I have checked is v0.52 so I may be wrong or not up-to-date...

Note that we have a customer who is extremely security conscious and would view 
this as an issue, and since security considerations are on the rise in the 
market they would probably not be alone (at least not for very long).

JD
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