sshd: buffer_get trying to get more bytes than in buffer

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:20:21AM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've noticed that one of my users logging in via ssh from one particular IP
> always causes this message to appear in auth.log:
> 
> Apr 20 15:43:18 heerold sshd[18766]: fatal: buffer_get: trying to get more bytes 4 than in buffer 0
> 
> The same user logs in from several different IP-s and the message only
> appears when he logs in from one particular IP. This leads me to believe
> that it might be just a quirk in the SSH client software he uses on this
> particular PC, but I just wanted to confirm that it's not actually an
> indication of Something Evil in progress.

In thses sort of cases it's always a good idea to cut'n'paste the
error message into Google.

Apart from turning up a worrying number of sites that have a binary of
'sftp-server' and other programs from the ssh package accessible on
their websites, you'll find links to this e-mail:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/121/261925/2002-03-08/2002-03-14/2

Looks like damage to the user's authorized_keys file:

	Cheers,

	Matthew	

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