# HG changeset patch # User Vladislav Grishenko # Date 1592227338 -18000 # Node ID 3974f087d9c0c0b526736776b4b8684f1cc74469 # Parent c0f12eaf95c9f46a5a69560c5468dd38e8cfff97 Disallow leading lines before the ident for server (#102) Per RFC4253 4.2 clients must be able to process other lines of data before the version string, server behavior is not defined neither with MUST/SHOULD nor with MAY. If server process up to 50 lines too - it may cause too long hanging session with invalid/evil client that consume host resources and potentially may lead to DDoS on poor embedded boxes. Let's require first line from client to be version string and fail early if it's not - matches both RFC and real OpenSSH behavior. diff -r c0f12eaf95c9 -r 3974f087d9c0 common-session.c --- a/common-session.c Thu Jun 11 00:09:15 2020 +0800 +++ b/common-session.c Mon Jun 15 18:22:18 2020 +0500 @@ -370,8 +370,11 @@ int len = 0; char done = 0; int i; - /* If they send more than 50 lines, something is wrong */ - for (i = 0; i < 50; i++) { + + /* Servers may send other lines of data before sending the + * version string, client must be able to process such lines. + * If they send more than 50 lines, something is wrong */ + for (i = IS_DROPBEAR_CLIENT ? 50 : 1; i > 0; i--) { len = ident_readln(ses.sock_in, linebuf, sizeof(linebuf)); if (len < 0 && errno != EINTR) {