Re: More ssh fun (sshd this time)

[hargrove () SCCM STANFORD EDU (Paul H. Hargrove)]

Thamer Al-Herbish writes:
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> This problem is that ssh/sshd uses an int instead of an unsigned short to do
> the comparison on. So wrapping doesnt occur till its placed in the struct
> sockaddr_in.
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It looks like (from reading it, not from running it) the patch will
consider negative port numbers to be "privileged" rather than
"invalid", thus yielding the incorrect massage.  This is, of course, a
cosmetic problem rather than a functional one.
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