https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2837
Bug ID: 2837
Summary: ssh-agent closes listening socket on error in
handle_socket_read()
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Version: 7.6p1
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P5
Component: ssh-agent
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 3132
--> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/attachment.cgi?id=3132&action=edit
patch that removes close_socket() of listening socket.
Hi all,
The ssh-agent closes the listening socket if handle_socket_read() fails
for any reason. This makes the agent process unusable if the getpeereid
check fails. Older versions before 7.6p1 used to not close the
listening socket.
You can reproduce this bug by executing agent-getpeereid.sh test but
instead of killing the agent process at the end, execute "ssh-add -l"
again with a privileged user. You will notice that the connection will
be refused because the listening socket was closed by the agent.
On our AIX test server we had a more severe issue because of this bug.
The ssh client tries to check if a ssh-agent is present by connecting
to it and immediately closing the socket again. On the agent side, this
can cause the call to getpeereid() to fail with the errormessage
"Connection closed" causing the listening socket to be closed as well,
making any future connections to the agent process impossible.
Thanks
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