Re: libssh upgraded; guile-ssh fails its tests

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Artyom Poptsov <poptsov.artyom@gmail.com> writes:

>> Upgrading libssh from 0.5.5 to 0.6.3 turned out to break Guile-SSH
>> 0.6.0.  I attach some of the test logs.  Any idea what’s going on?
>
> Well, I think the problem is that there are changes in the API between
> libssh 0.5 and libssh 0.6.  So Guile-SSH must be updated to be able to
> work with libssh 0.6.  I have plans to migrate Guile-SSH to libssh 0.6,
> but this work is still to be done.
>
> And it worth mention that according to the Guile-SSH 0.6.0 documenation
> it requires libssh 0.5.4 or 0.5.5, so you shouldn't be surprised that
> Guile-SSH 0.6.0 breaks on libssh 0.6 ;-)

FYI, versions of libssh prior to 0.6.3 contain a security vulnerability.

  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0017

Therefore, unless someone wants to backport the security fix to an older
version of libssh, we'll have to live without Guile-SSH for now.

      Mark