#846379 Problem with reverse tunnel between SSH client 5.5p1 and SSH server > 6.4p1

Package:
openssh-server
Source:
openssh
Description:
secure shell (SSH) server, for secure access from remote machines
Submitter:
"W. Martin Borgert"
Date:
2017-11-17 16:36:10 UTC
Severity:
normal
#846379#5
Date:
2016-11-30 19:33:53 UTC
From:
To:
I suffer from some change between OpenSSH 6.4 and 6.5, probably
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/attachment.cgi?id=2344 (fix for bug
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2147).

I have an OpenSSH client 1:5.5p1-6+squeeze3 on Debian 6 (Squeeze)
building a reverse tunnel with dynamic port to a Jessie server:

$ /usr/bin/ssh -t -t -R *:0:localhost:443 user@server somecommand

If the server runs OpenSSH up to version 6.4p1-2 ("forwardports" from
snaphot.d.o), everything is fine. With any OpenSSH server from 6.5p1-6
to 7.3p1-3, the tunnel gets established, but no data can be
transmitted over it. On any activity, the client side shows:
WARNING: Server requests forwarding for unknown listen_port 54321
debug1: failure forwarded-tcpip
When the client specifies the port (= no dynamic port):

$ /usr/bin/ssh -t -t -R *:54321:localhost:443 user@server somecommand

everything works fine, independent of the OpenSSH server version.

Reverting part of the change above solves the problem:
--- openssh-7.3p1.orig/channels.c
+++ openssh-7.3p1/channels.c
@@ -1458,7 +1458,7 @@ port_open_helper(Channel *c, char *rtype
                  } else {
                          /* listen address, port */
                          packet_put_cstring(c->path);
-                        packet_put_int(local_port);
+                        packet_put_int(c->listening_port);
                  }
                  if (strcmp(rtype,
"forwarded-streamlocal@openssh.com") == 0) {
                          /* reserved for future owner/mode info */

Can we have this revert in Debian, please?
Or does it have any problems, i.e. what about bug 2147?