Padding byte interpreted as signed integer, should be unsigned

[briandfoy]

This ticket was imported from rt.cpan.org 118437

• Requestor: xan@biblionix.com
• Date: Mon Jun 12 02:45:00 2017
• Original subject: Padding byte interpreted as signed integer, should be unsigned
• Original link: rt.cpan.org 118437

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Hello,

I've just run across a problem connecting to some servers, which I
believe to be the problem described here:
https://fogbugz.bitvise.com/default.asp?WinSSHD.1.11700.2

Basically, Net::SSH::Perl works if the padding happens to be 127 or
below, but it should work all the way up to 255. The symptom is for
example "Corrupted padlen -102 on input".

The solution seems to be to change line 241 (in version 2.01) to 'unpack
"C"' instead of 'unpack "c"'.

Thanks!

-Xan

[briandfoy]

from schwigon@cpan.org

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Hi,

thanks for your report?

Is there any chance that you create a Pull Request on Lance Kinley's repo on github https://github.com/lkinley/Net-SSH-Perl so he can have a look? He is the main author behind current development.

Thanks,
Steffen

On Wed Oct 19 11:38:52 2016, xan@biblionix.com wrote:

Hello,

I've just run across a problem connecting to some servers, which I
believe to be the problem described here:
https://fogbugz.bitvise.com/default.asp?WinSSHD.1.11700.2

Basically, Net::SSH::Perl works if the padding happens to be 127 or
below, but it should work all the way up to 255. The symptom is for
example "Corrupted padlen -102 on input".

The solution seems to be to change line 241 (in version 2.01) to 'unpack
"C"' instead of 'unpack "c"'.

Thanks!

-Xan