- djm@cvs.openbsd.org 2006/12/12 03:58:42
[channels.c compat.c compat.h]
bz #1019: some ssh.com versions apparently can't cope with the
remote port forwarding bind_address being a hostname, so send
them an address for cases where they are not explicitly
specified (wildcard or localhost bind). reported by daveroth AT
acm.org; ok dtucker@ deraadt@
diff --git a/channels.c b/channels.c
index 26b63a1..6be1219 100644
--- a/channels.c
+++ b/channels.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: channels.c,v 1.266 2006/08/29 10:40:18 djm Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: channels.c,v 1.267 2006/12/12 03:58:42 djm Exp $ */
/*
* Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
* Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
@@ -2525,11 +2525,18 @@
/* Send the forward request to the remote side. */
if (compat20) {
const char *address_to_bind;
- if (listen_host == NULL)
- address_to_bind = "localhost";
- else if (*listen_host == '\0' || strcmp(listen_host, "*") == 0)
- address_to_bind = "";
- else
+ if (listen_host == NULL) {
+ if (datafellows & SSH_BUG_RFWD_ADDR)
+ address_to_bind = "127.0.0.1";
+ else
+ address_to_bind = "localhost";
+ } else if (*listen_host == '\0' ||
+ strcmp(listen_host, "*") == 0) {
+ if (datafellows & SSH_BUG_RFWD_ADDR)
+ address_to_bind = "0.0.0.0";
+ else
+ address_to_bind = "";
+ } else
address_to_bind = listen_host;
packet_start(SSH2_MSG_GLOBAL_REQUEST);