[Bug 1903516] Re: aborted (core dumped) when using ConnectTimeout > 2147483

[Bert Hekman]

Hi Paride,

Thanks for filing the upstream bug report. I totally agree that this bug
is of low importance.

My colleague actually encountered this problem because he really didn't
want a SSH tunnel to time out. He could not figure out what was causing
the crash but I found it out after some digging. So I thought it would
be useful if the client would give a proper error message, so other
people who might encounter this who can't figure it out will also be
able to know why it crashes.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to openssh in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1903516

Title:
  aborted (core dumped) when using ConnectTimeout > 2147483

Status in portable OpenSSH:
  Unknown
Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The ssh client fails with the message "Aborted (core dumped)" when
  setting the ConnectTimeout to 2147484 or higher.

  lsb_release: Linux Mint 20 (but also tested this on latest ubuntu:20.04 docker container)
  openssh-client version: 1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.1

  I expected that either the connect timeout would be used correctly, or
  that it would fail with a proper error message saying the connect
  timeout can't be higher than 2147483.

  What happened:

  $ ssh -o "ConnectTimeout=2147484" localhost
  Aborted (core dumped)

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openssh/+bug/1903516/+subscriptions