File openssh-6.6p1-IPv6_X_forwarding.patch of Package openssh

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File openssh-6.6p1-IPv6_X_forwarding.patch of Package openssh

# HG changeset patch
# Parent  1984a8c1f27fa2130ebc787d3d969a1026d9abca
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

diff --git a/openssh-6.6p1/channels.c b/openssh-6.6p1/channels.c
--- a/openssh-6.6p1/channels.c
+++ b/openssh-6.6p1/channels.c
@@ -3588,18 +3588,19 @@ x11_connect_display(void)
 		/* OK, we now have a connection to the display. */
 		return sock;
 	}
 #endif
 	/*
 	 * Check if it is a unix domain socket.  Unix domain displays are in
 	 * one of the following formats: unix:d[.s], :d[.s], ::d[.s]
 	 */
+	cp = strrchr(display, ':');
 	if (strncmp(display, "unix:", 5) == 0 ||
-	    display[0] == ':') {
+	    (display[0] == ':' && ((cp - display) < 2)) ) {
 		/* Connect to the unix domain socket. */
 		if (sscanf(strrchr(display, ':') + 1, "%u", &display_number) != 1) {
 			error("Could not parse display number from DISPLAY: %.100s",
 			    display);
 			return -1;
 		}
 		/* Create a socket. */
 		sock = connect_local_xsocket(display_number);
@@ -3607,30 +3608,39 @@ x11_connect_display(void)
 			return -1;
 
 		/* OK, we now have a connection to the display. */
 		return sock;
 	}
 	/*
 	 * Connect to an inet socket.  The DISPLAY value is supposedly
 	 * hostname:d[.s], where hostname may also be numeric IP address.
+	 * Note that IPv6 numberic 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;
 	}
 	*cp = 0;
 	/* buf now contains the host name.  But first we parse the display number. */
 	if (sscanf(cp + 1, "%u", &display_number) != 1) {
 		error("Could not parse display number from DISPLAY: %.100s",
 		    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));
 	hints.ai_family = IPv4or6;
 	hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
 	snprintf(strport, sizeof strport, "%u", 6000 + display_number);
 	if ((gaierr = getaddrinfo(buf, strport, &hints, &aitop)) != 0) {
 		error("%.100s: unknown host. (%s)", buf,

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