Re: Transport I-D: KEXINIT reserved field needs description

To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%east.sun.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Transport I-D: KEXINIT reserved field needs description
From: Markus Friedl <markus%openbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:27:35 +0200

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:11:08AM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > >OpenSSH will accept non-zero values for the reserved uint32 value, but will
> > >not allow more data after this field.
> > 
> > Same for cryptlib.
> 
> What's the detailed behavior?  suddenly drop the connection?  drop the
> connection after sending an error packet?

yes, OpenSSH will send a SSH2_MSG_DISCONNECT/SSH2_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR
error message and close the connection.

References:
- Re: Transport I-D: KEXINIT reserved field needs description
  - From: Peter Gutmann
- Re: Transport I-D: KEXINIT reserved field needs description
  - From: Bill Sommerfeld

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