openssh bugs - Aug 2024 - [Bug 3725] New: Unclear error when configuring 'ed25519' as HostKeyAlgorithms

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3725

            Bug ID: 3725
           Summary: Unclear error when configuring 'ed25519' as
                    HostKeyAlgorithms
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 9.8p1
          Hardware: amd64
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: ssh
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
          Reporter: noratrieb at proton.me

When specifying an entirely invalid host key algorithm, a clear error
message is emitted:

$ ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=invalid localhost
command-line line 0: Bad key types 'invalid'.

But when configuring 'ed25519' (the correct algorithm is of course
ssh-ed25519), this error is not emitted, instead it errors with a
seemingly internal error.

$ ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=ed25519 localhost
ssh_kex2: kex_assemble_namelist: invalid argument

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3725

Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
             Blocks|                            |3708
                 CC|                            |djm at mindrot.org
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #1 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
This should be fixed in commit 13cc78d016b67 which will be in the
openssh-9.9 release, due in about 6 weeks - thanks!


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3708
[Bug 3708] Tracking bug for OpenSSH 9.9
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