Well - here is my patch.... Appears to work w/o complaint w/ gssftp.... Included is another memory leak patch - on error case.... Index: krb5/k5sealv3.c =================================================================== --- krb5/k5sealv3.c (revision 19019) +++ krb5/k5sealv3.c (working copy) @@ -412,10 +412,16 @@ if (load_16_be(althdr) != 0x0504 || althdr[2] != ptr[2] || althdr[3] != ptr[3] - || memcmp(althdr+8, ptr+8, 8)) + || memcmp(althdr+8, ptr+8, 8)) { + free(plain.data); goto defective; + } message_buffer->value = plain.data; message_buffer->length = plain.length - ec - 16; + if(message_buffer->length == 0) { + free(message_buffer->value); + message_buffer->value = NULL; + } } else { /* no confidentiality */ if (conf_state)