** Merge proposal linked: https://code.launchpad.net/~athos-ribeiro/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+git/openssh/+merge/406318
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to openssh in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1905285 Title: socket-activated sshd breaks on concurrent connections Status in openssh package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in openssh source package in Focal: In Progress Status in openssh source package in Hirsute: New Bug description: [Impact] Users of the systemd socket activated ssh service may experience a race condition that may lead an ssh instance to fail. The race condition happens when, for a running socket activated ssh service, an instance A is started, creating the RuntimeDirectory for the service; then an instance B is started, relying on the RuntimeDirectory created for instance A; then instance A halts, causing the RuntimeDirectory to be deleted. If, at this point, instance B has not chrooted into RuntimeDirectory yet, then instance B will fail. The proposed patch fixes the issue by preserving the RuntimeDirectory after an instance A of the socket activated ssh service halts. [Test Plan] 1) Stop any running instances of ssh. `systemctl stop ssh` 2) Start the socket activated ssh service. `systemctl start ssh.socket` 3) Verify that no errors related to ssh were logged in /var/log/auth.log `cat /var/log/auth.log | grep 'sshd.*fatal.*chroot.*No such file or directory'` 4) perform several ssh connections to the running server in a short time span. ssh-keyscan may help here. `ssh-keyscan localhost` 5) Verify that errors related to ssh were logged in /var/log/auth.log `cat /var/log/auth.log | grep 'sshd.*fatal.*chroot.*No such file or directory'` 6) Apply the proposed fix (make sure the socket activated service is restarted) 7) repead step (4), then verify that no new entries were appended to the step (5) output [Where problems could occur] If the changes to the socket activated unit file are wrong, the socket activated service may fail to start after the package upgrade. In this case, we would need to instruct users to perform local changes to the unit file with possible additional fixes while a new version of the patch lands. [racb] There might be cases where users are inadvertently depending on the cleanup that will now be disabled - for example by a bug or misconfiguration that would result in /run filling up otherwise. By disabling systemd cleanup and relying solely on openssh for cleanup, such a bug or misconfiguration may be exposed and cause problems on such systems. [Other Info] This fix has been forwarded to Debian and accepted in https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/-/merge_requests/12 [Original message] This is mostly the same issue as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=934663. With the default configuration of openssh-server and systemd, sshd will complain and crash when multiple connections are made and terminated in a quick succession, e.g. with `ssh-keyscan`. It results in the following errors in /var/log/auth.log: ``` Nov 22 20:53:34 {host} sshd[14567]: Unable to negotiate with {client} port 41460: no matching host key type found. Their offer: sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp...@openssh.com [preauth] Nov 22 20:53:34 {host} sshd[14570]: fatal: chroot("/run/sshd"): No such file or directory [preauth] Nov 22 20:53:34 {host} sshd[14569]: fatal: chroot("/run/sshd"): No such file or directory [preauth] Nov 22 20:53:34 {host} sshd[14568]: fatal: chroot("/run/sshd"): No such file or directory [preauth] Nov 22 20:53:34 {host} sshd[14566]: fatal: chroot("/run/sshd"): No such file or directory [preauth] Nov 22 20:53:47 {host} sshd[14584]: Connection closed by {client} port 59312 [preauth] Nov 22 20:53:47 {host} sshd[14586]: fatal: chroot("/run/sshd"): No such file or directory [preauth] Nov 22 20:53:48 {host} sshd[14585]: fatal: chroot("/run/sshd"): No such file or directory [preauth] ``` as well as e.g. missing responses in ssh-keyscan: ``` $ ssh-keyscan -vvv {host} debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK debug3: conalloc: oname {host} kt 2 debug2: fd 4 setting O_NONBLOCK debug3: conalloc: oname {host} kt 4 debug2: fd 5 setting O_NONBLOCK debug3: conalloc: oname {host} kt 8 debug2: fd 6 setting O_NONBLOCK debug3: conalloc: oname {host} kt 32 debug2: fd 7 setting O_NONBLOCK debug3: conalloc: oname {host} kt 64 debug1: match: OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000 # {host}:22 SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 debug3: send packet: type 20 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug3: receive packet: type 20 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug2: local client KEXINIT proposal debug2: KEX algorithms: curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha...@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256 debug2: host key algorithms: sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp...@openssh.com debug2: ciphers ctos: chacha20-poly1...@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-...@openssh.com,aes256-...@openssh.com debug2: ciphers stoc: chacha20-poly1...@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-...@openssh.com,aes256-...@openssh.com debug2: MACs ctos: umac-64-...@openssh.com,umac-128-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-...@openssh.com,umac...@openssh.com,umac-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1 debug2: MACs stoc: umac-64-...@openssh.com,umac-128-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-...@openssh.com,umac...@openssh.com,umac-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1 debug2: compression ctos: none,z...@openssh.com debug2: compression stoc: none,z...@openssh.com debug2: languages ctos: debug2: languages stoc: debug2: first_kex_follows 0 debug2: reserved 0 debug2: peer server KEXINIT proposal debug2: KEX algorithms: curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha...@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 debug2: host key algorithms: rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ssh-ed25519 debug2: ciphers ctos: chacha20-poly1...@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-...@openssh.com,aes256-...@openssh.com debug2: ciphers stoc: chacha20-poly1...@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-...@openssh.com,aes256-...@openssh.com debug2: MACs ctos: umac-64-...@openssh.com,umac-128-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-...@openssh.com,umac...@openssh.com,umac-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1 debug2: MACs stoc: umac-64-...@openssh.com,umac-128-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-...@openssh.com,umac...@openssh.com,umac-...@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1 debug2: compression ctos: none,z...@openssh.com debug2: compression stoc: none,z...@openssh.com debug2: languages ctos: debug2: languages stoc: debug2: first_kex_follows 0 debug2: reserved 0 debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256 debug1: kex: host key algorithm: (no match) debug1: match: OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000 # {host}:22 SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 debug3: send packet: type 20 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: match: OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000 # {host}:22 SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 debug3: send packet: type 20 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: match: OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000 # {host}:22 SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 debug3: send packet: type 20 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: match: OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000 # {host}:22 SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 debug3: send packet: type 20 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent ``` The error is most likely caused by a race condition on removing /run/sshd, which is easily reproducible by ssh-keyscan. I noticed that depeding on client, I'd sometimes miss all keys, sometimes get one, sometimes more. Modifying the following files (they should me marked as modified in the bug report) seems to solve the issue, at least temporarily: /usr/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/ssh@.service In both cases, I added `RuntimeDirectoryPreserve=yes` to the `[Service]` section, after `RuntimeDirectory=sshd`. This is the same solution mentioned in the Debian bug, although their bug report doesn't mention which service files are affected. This doesn't seem to be a proper long-term solution though, as it seems apt doesn't respect configuration files in /usr (or they are unlisted somewhere), because after upgrading system just before filing this bug report, the files got overwritten and reverted to their original form. I only got asked about the /etc/ssh/sshd_config, which I have chosen to keep. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: openssh-server 1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.1 [modified: lib/systemd/system/ssh.service lib/systemd/system/ssh@.service] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-54.60-generic 5.4.65 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-54-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.12 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip Date: Mon Nov 23 15:09:32 2020 SourcePackage: openssh UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/1905285/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
