On Thu, 17 Mar 2022, Aaron Poffenberger wrote:
> I managed to lock myself out of my firewall today.
>
> I disabled inet6 resolution by removing it from the `family` option in
> resolve.conf(5). After a while I noticed I couldn't make new inbound
> connections using either ipv4 or ipv6. My client kept reporting:
>
> "kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host"
>
> On the server I found the following errors in /var/log/authlog:
>
> "fatal: bad addr or host: ::1 (no address associated with name)"
>
> Totally my fault for changing resolv.conf without enough thought, but
> perhaps sshd could disable the listener in such cases.
Well, we can't catch every misconfiguration that could result in
sshd failing to accept connections, but I think we can fix this one :)
sshd doesn't need to actually resolve the listenaddress directives in
the reexec path, so skip it.
diff --git a/servconf.c b/servconf.c
index 63a7303..dd936f0 100644
--- a/servconf.c
+++ b/servconf.c
@@ -2459,7 +2459,7 @@ parse_server_match_config(ServerOptions *options,
initialize_server_options(&mo);
parse_server_config(&mo, "reprocess config", cfg, includes,
- connectinfo);
+ connectinfo, 0);
copy_set_server_options(options, &mo, 0);
}
@@ -2637,12 +2637,13 @@ parse_server_config_depth(ServerOptions *options, const
char *filename,
void
parse_server_config(ServerOptions *options, const char *filename,
struct sshbuf *conf, struct include_list *includes,
- struct connection_info *connectinfo)
+ struct connection_info *connectinfo, int reexec)
{
int active = connectinfo ? 0 : 1;
parse_server_config_depth(options, filename, conf, includes,
connectinfo, (connectinfo ? SSHCFG_MATCH_ONLY : 0), &active, 0);
- process_queued_listen_addrs(options);
+ if (!reexec)
+ process_queued_listen_addrs(options);
}
static const char *
diff --git a/servconf.h b/servconf.h
index 1197c57..6f1f745 100644
--- a/servconf.h
+++ b/servconf.h
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ int process_server_config_line(ServerOptions *, char *,
const char *, int,
void process_permitopen(struct ssh *ssh, ServerOptions *options);
void load_server_config(const char *, struct sshbuf *);
void parse_server_config(ServerOptions *, const char *, struct sshbuf *,
- struct include_list *includes, struct connection_info *);
+ struct include_list *includes, struct connection_info *, int);
void parse_server_match_config(ServerOptions *,
struct include_list *includes, struct connection_info *);
int parse_server_match_testspec(struct connection_info *, char *);
diff --git a/sshd.c b/sshd.c
index 6d8bc2a..72e9fe7 100644
--- a/sshd.c
+++ b/sshd.c
@@ -1638,7 +1638,7 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
load_server_config(config_file_name, cfg);
parse_server_config(&options, rexeced_flag ? "rexec" :
config_file_name,
- cfg, &includes, NULL);
+ cfg, &includes, NULL, rexeced_flag);
#ifdef WITH_OPENSSL
if (options.moduli_file != NULL)