File openssh-7.7p1-IPv6_X_forwarding.patch of Package openssh

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File openssh-7.7p1-IPv6_X_forwarding.patch of Package openssh (Revision e975ca0ac717b536b0936aec5dc06d56)

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# HG changeset patch
# Parent  8df645ca39d64de025d8838c5713812e72308c92
Correctly parse DISPLAY variable for cases where it contains an IPv6 address
(which should - but not always is - in (square) brackets).

bnc#847710 - https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847710

Index: openssh-8.8p1/channels.c
===================================================================
--- openssh-8.8p1.orig/channels.c
+++ openssh-8.8p1/channels.c
@@ -4776,9 +4776,10 @@ x11_connect_display(struct ssh *ssh)
 	/*
 	 * Connect to an inet socket.  The DISPLAY value is supposedly
 	 * hostname:d[.s], where hostname may also be numeric IP address.
+	 * Note that IPv6 numeric addresses contain colons (e.g. ::1:0)
 	 */
 	strlcpy(buf, display, sizeof(buf));
-	cp = strchr(buf, ':');
+	cp = strrchr(buf, ':');
 	if (!cp) {
 		error("Could not find ':' in DISPLAY: %.100s", display);
 		return -1;
@@ -4793,6 +4794,14 @@ x11_connect_display(struct ssh *ssh)
 		    display);
 		return -1;
 	}
+	
+	/* Remove brackets surrounding IPv6 addresses if there are any. */
+	if (buf[0] == '[' && (cp = strchr(buf, ']'))) {
+		*cp = 0;
+		cp = buf + 1;
+	} else {
+		cp = buf;
+	}
 
 	/* Look up the host address */
 	memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));

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