Bug#137492: PAM pam_set_item: NULL pam handle passed

From: Matt Zimmerman (mdzat_private)
Date: Sat Mar 09 2002 - 09:21:24 PST

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    Package: ssh
    Version: 1:3.0.2p1-8
    Severity: normal
    
    On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 12:06:46PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
    
    > Yes, this is pretty much what I assumed...I would like to track down why
    > this is happening, and send a good bug report to the OpenSSH folks, but I
    > can't reproduce the problem, and probably won't have the time to fiddle
    > with it too much.  It may only happen when the client does something
    > specific, that the client from my version of OpenSSH will not do, even
    > under the same circumstances.
    
    Well, scratch that, it turns out that it's actually quite easy to reproduce.
    The key bits are:
    
    - v1 protocol
    - public key authentication
    - illegal user
    
    The bug only surfaces when all of these are active.  For example:
    
    ssh -1 -i some-v1-key nonexistentuser@localhost
    
    will do it every time.
    
    --
    
    Versions of packages ssh depends on:
    ii  debconf                       1.0.31     Debian configuration management sy
    ii  libc6                         2.2.5-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
    ii  libpam-modules                0.72-35    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
    ii  libpam0g                      0.72-35    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
    ii  libssl0.9.6                   0.9.6c-1   SSL shared libraries
    ii  libwrap0                      7.6-9      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
    ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.3-19 compression library - runtime
    
    -- 
     - mdz
    
    
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