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Fix information disclosure or denial of service due to uninitialized variables in gssapi-keyex

Based on https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssh/c/f595270c4ac496ad743336e80a4f3cc11a144efb?branch=rawhide by Zoltan Fridrich zfridric@redhat.com

Fix information disclosure or denial of service due to uninitialized variables in gssapi-keyex

Based on https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssh/c/f595270c4ac496ad743336e80a4f3cc11a144efb?branch=rawhide
by Zoltan Fridrich <zfridric@redhat.com>
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fscheiner commented Apr 12, 2026

Untested so far. Also still unclear if the GSI functionality is affected.

if (kex->dh == NULL) {
sshpkt_disconnect(ssh, "Protocol error: no matching group found");
fatal("Protocol error: no matching group found");
ssh_packet_disconnect(ssh, "Protocol error: no matching group found");
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@msalle : Here I wonder if that is enough, as the original code did end - I guess the key exchange - with fatal() at this point. But the change by Red Hat has it that way.

@fscheiner fscheiner requested review from ellert and msalle April 12, 2026 21:38
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