Debian Bug report logs - #59926
memory hole in ssh-agent

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andy Spiegl <Andy@Spiegl.de>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: memory hole in ssh-agent

Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:02:52 +0100

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Package: ssh
Version: 1.2.2-1.4

ssh-agent seems to consume more and more memory with every use.
Here is an example:

USER   %MEM  RSS   VSZ   TIME  CMD
spiegl  0.5 1864  3192   0:02  /usr/bin/ssh-agent /home/spiegl/.xsession

eule:~>for ((i=1;i<500;i++)) ssh localhost ls 2>&1 > /dev/null

USER   %MEM  RSS   VSZ   TIME  CMD
spiegl  5.2 16876 18200   0:30 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /home/spiegl/.xsession

After a few days memory use rises up to 40MB and more. :-(


-- System Information
Debian Release: frozen
Kernel Version: Linux eule 2.2.13 #1 Mit Nov 10 20:56:10 CET 1999 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages ssh depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.3-6   GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
ii  libpam0g        0.72-6    Pluggable Authentication Modules library
ii  libssl09        0.9.4-4   SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0        7.6-4     Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library
ii  zlib1g          1.1.3-5   compression library - runtime
ii  libpam-modules  0.72-6    Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM

Bye,
 Andy.

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Message #10 received at 59926@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andy Spiegl <Andy@Spiegl.de>

To: 59926@bugs.debian.org

Subject: memory hole in ssh-agent

Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:07:34 +0100

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Hi!

I'd like to change severity of my bug report to "important".
After a few days the ssh-agents are consuming just too much of the
available memory.

Thanks,
 Andy.
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Message #15 received at 59926@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dan Helfman <witten@torsion.org>

To: 59926@bugs.debian.org

Subject: memory leak in ssh-agent

Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 18:26:46 -0700

I would just like to second this bug report.. I too am experiencing
memleaking behavior with ssh-agent.

Package: ssh
Version: 1:1.2.3-3

PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
311 witten     0   0 59092  34M    52 S       0  0.0 27.6   0:02 ssh-agent

This is on a system with 128 megabytes of ram.

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Message #20 received at 59926@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>

To: Andy Spiegl <Andy@Spiegl.de>

Cc: 59926@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: memory hole in ssh-agent

Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:15:21 +0100

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> Package: ssh
> Version: 1.2.2-1.4

> ssh-agent seems to consume more and more memory with every use.
> Here is an example:

Can you reproduce this memory hole with the ssh-package from testing? 

Ciao
     Christian
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Message #25 received at 59926-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthew Vernon <matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk>

To: 59926-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Apparantly no longer a problem

Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 13:50:47 +0100 (BST)

Hi,

I notice you didn't reply to a request to check the testing version to
see if this bug still occured. I'm accordingly closing this bug
report. If you are able to demonstrate this bug with new ssh, please
re-open it.

Thanks,

Matthew

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