Bug#340863: [EMAIL PROTECTED] acts as a mail amplifier

2005-11-26 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: qa.debian.org I accidentally discovered that [EMAIL PROTECTED] acts as a mail amplifier. A single messagge to [EMAIL PROTECTED], containing lots of commands of the form subscribe ada-mode subscribe apache2 subscribe asterisk ... causes a mail message to be sent for each of these

Bug#341227: typo at @EXPORT_OK in /usr/share/perl5/Algorithm/Diff.pm

2005-11-29 Thread Florian Weimer
tag 341227 confirmed upstream forwarded 341227 http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=8576 thanks * Martin Zobel-Helas: there seems to be an typo in @EXPORT_OK of /usr/share/perl5/Algorithm/Diff.pm. It's should be LCSidx, not LCDidx, as the function is called LCSidx Thanks. This has been

Bug#341302: mozilla-firefox: first invocation after upgrade displays Google ad

2005-11-29 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-1 Severity: normal When starting Firefox after an upgrade from 1.0.7 for the first time, Firefox does not show the usual local Debian start page, but some Google page. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#332259: webmin possible remote root exploit - problem also applies to spampd

2005-11-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Sven Mueller: http://www.dyadsecurity.com/webmin-0001.html http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341394 If this is considered a possible remote root compromise, the spampd bug I reported a while ago to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (see also bug #332259) is also a possible remote

Bug#295211: manpages-dev is more recent than GNU libc

2005-12-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Justin Pryzby: #295211 manpages-dev is more recent than GNU libc. Does this bug still apply? Yes. For example, exit_group is documented in a manual page, but not yet supported by the current libc version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#335881: numerix: FTBFS: Segfaults in tests

2005-12-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michel Quercia: like this ? -- # corps de boucle à dérouler. taille du code = 24 octets # entrer avec eax = edx = 1er chiffre de a, CF = 0 #undef BODY #define BODY(x,y,z) \ adcl

Bug#335881: numerix: FTBFS: Segfaults in tests

2005-12-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michel Quercia: I don't know how to make a patch. Is this ok ? It is. --- 985,991 #define BODY(x,y,z) \ adcl x(%ebx,%ecx,4), %eax; \ !/* movl y(%esi,%ecx,4), %edx */ .byte 0x8B, 0x54, 0x8E, y; \ movl %eax, x(%edi,%ecx,4); \ !/* adcl

Bug#335881: numerix: FTBFS: Segfaults in tests

2005-12-06 Thread Florian Weimer
tag 335881 patch thanks * Michel Quercia: Florian Weimer a écrit : You must also byte-code the final movl instruction, I'm afraid: Sorry. Attached is the new diff file (with respect to the original 0.21 source). Thanks a lot. I can confirm that this patch applies to the Debian package

Bug#305600: Wait a second. This bug is not fixed

2005-05-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Martin Quinson: So, I reopen this bug just to leave the discussion open and see what happens. In my opinion, this is a unfixable bug. Whatever we do in login to prevent it could be done by an attacker, too. But I may well be wrong. One approach is a secure attention key:

Bug#308589: postgresql-common: home directory of postgres user does not exist

2005-05-11 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: postgresql-common Version: 7 Severity: normal The postgres user is created with home directory /home/postgres, which does not exist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#308589: postgresql-common: home directory of postgres user does not exist

2005-05-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Martin Pitt: Florian Weimer [2005-05-11 11:49 +0200]: Package: postgresql-common Version: 7 Severity: normal The postgres user is created with home directory /home/postgres, which does not exist. Right, it is not supposed to be created. postgres is a system user which owns

Bug#308597: postgresl-8.0: server socket created in /tmp

2005-05-11 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: postgresl-8.0 Version: 8.0.2-1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole The server creates a socket in /tmp, which is unsafe. Any local user can create a similar socket and impersonate the database server. This bug also breaks backwards comaptibility with old

Bug#158590: scp resume

2005-05-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Martin Samuelsson: About patching upstream, they state in their FAQ that they will not accept additions to scp. However if implementing it in sftp it might have a chance to get in. http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#2.10 The draft standard they mention is nowhere to be found. It's

Bug#308341: glibc-doc: SO_RCVBUF documented as size_t, but is int in Linux.

2005-05-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Teddy Hogeborn: In (libc)Socket-Level Options, SO_RCVBUF is documented as having a type size_t. In Linux, it is of type int. The man page socket(7) does not say what type it is. The same goes for SO_SNDBUF. According to the kernel and Stevens, it's an indeed an int. So the documentation

Bug#309016: ghc6-doc package incomplete

2005-05-13 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: ghc6-doc Version: 6.4-3 Severity: normal The file /usr/share/doc/ghc6-doc/html/index.html references to the compiler documentation, but it is not included in the package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#309196: Bug#307231: RageIRCd build failure on s390

2005-05-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Alasdair McWilliam: Change to: AC_CHECK_FUNCS([times index rindex setlinebuf va_copy __va_copy]) va_copy is a macro, so this check won't work reliably. On Debian, it's safe to use va_copy unconditionally because it's part of GCC's stdarg.h header. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#309196: Bug#307231: RageIRCd build failure on s390

2005-05-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: +#if defined(__GNUC__) || (defined(__powerpc__) defined(__FreeBSD__)) #define VA_COPY __va_copy +#elif defined(__powerpc__) defined(__NetBSD__) +#define VA_COPY va_copy #else #define VA_COPY(x, y) x = y #endif Would that be ok with both of you? __va_copy is provided

Bug#309599: manpages-dev: Return value of res_search and friends

2005-05-18 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: manpages-dev Version: 2.02-2 Severity: normal Please document that the res_search function return the *actual* length of the response, which may be greater than the length of the supplied buffer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#255276: Fixed in upstream CVS

2005-05-18 Thread Florian Weimer
See this message below. Recent OpenLDAP versions will recover automatically, as needed. Rumor has it that Berkeley DB 4.4 will offer similar functionality, too. From: Howard Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Force single thread of control during recovery Newsgroups: comp.databases.berkeley-db

Bug#282468: subversion: Wrapper scripts are a must.

2005-05-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michal Pasternak: I vote for this bug. Without wrapper scripts it is pretty hard (and, from a practical point of view: _impossible_) to use subversion repository, as everything breaks, due to wrong chmod. Please investigate the FSFS backend, with proper directory permissions (i.e. GID

Bug#344615: missinglib: ftbfs [sparc] *** [test] Bus error

2006-01-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Sven Luther: i guess sparc-*-* should be changed by sparc*-*-*, and we can then close this bug. But why does the host triplet not match sparc*-*-*? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#346073: double free bug when closing externally modified mailbox

2006-01-05 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.11-4 When a quit mutt after the mailbox has been externally modified (and all messages in it have been deleted), mutt crashes with a GNU libc error message: -*-Mutt: ~/Mail/INCOMING/mail.misc [Msgs:1]---(threads/date)(all)--- Writing messages... 0 (0%)***

Bug#345238: Shell command injection in delegate code (via file names)

2006-01-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Daniel Kobras: tag 345238 + patch thanks On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 02:19:27PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: With some user interaction, this is exploitable through Gnus and Thunderbird. I think this warrants increasing the severity to grave. Here's the vanilla fix from upstream SVN

Bug#346179: debsecan: doesn't seem to correctly grok ~ in version number

2006-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: debsecan complains invalid version 1.2.9-1~zg1 of package $PACKAGE The version is, however, correct. This should be fixed. How? Is there an official description of the ~ semantics? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#346197: [CVE-2005-4560] Wine is vulnerable to SetAbortProc WMF bug

2006-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: wine Version: 0.9-1 Severity: grave Tags: security H D Moore mentioned that Wine contains vulnerable code similar to Microsoft Windows: http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-January/002806.html The fix seems to be to remove that case label. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#346179: debsecan: doesn't seem to correctly grok ~ in version number

2006-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:55:28AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Marc Haber: debsecan complains invalid version 1.2.9-1~zg1 of package $PACKAGE The version is, however, correct. This should be fixed. How? Is there an official description of the ~ semantics? I didn't

Bug#346209: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#346209: Time to remove db2 entirely?

2006-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Nathanael Nerode: There are no packages in etch which depend on any of the db2 packages. In unstable, there are only htdig, qtstalker, and libdb2-ruby. qtstalker is being converted to libdb4 upstream, and libdb2-ruby isn't actually used by anything else. htdig appears to be unmaintained.

Bug#345604: ConTeXt documentation is non-free

2006-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ralf Stubner: | All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, | stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any | means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, | without prior written permission of the publisher. (from

Bug#346354: distribution of this package is likely a GPL violation

2006-01-07 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: max-db Version: 7.5.00.19-1 Severity: serious The HTML documentation has apparently been generated by a tool called SAP Html Export: !-- Exported by SAP Html Export 70.0 at 19.10.2004 01:58:23 -- This means that these HTML documents are not the preferred form of the work for making

Bug#346328: packages.debian.org: packages.d.o is down message.

2006-01-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Gustavo Franco: I think we can inform about PTS and remove Google direct reference as in the following message: The PTS seems to have stopped updating, too. 8-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#346179: debsecan: doesn't seem to correctly grok ~ in version number

2006-01-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: What happens if there are multiple ~? They are processed in order. dpkg --compare-versions handles ~ correctly. And APT? Does it behave differently? (There are differences between the two in the area of epoch handling.) I'm going to add something like the following: -

Bug#346572: [mipsel] Depends on ocaml-nox-3.08.3 which cannot be installed.

2006-01-09 Thread Florian Weimer
The following packages have unmet dependencies: ocaml: Depends: ocaml-nox-3.08.3 E: Broken packages I get this from my mirror regularly. It occurs because the package index is downloaded first .. but the packages come later. No, this has to be something else, I'm afaraid. Missing

Bug#346572: [mipsel] Depends on ocaml-nox-3.08.3 which cannot be installed.

2006-01-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Paul Richards: Attempting to install 'ocaml' on current debian stable fails due to broken packages. The following packages have unmet dependencies: ocaml: Depends: ocaml-nox-3.08.3 E: Broken packages What does apt-get install ocaml-nox print, or apt-get install ocaml-nox-3.08.3?

Bug#347221: smstools: Format string attack in logging code

2006-01-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Kemp: A DSA has just been released for smstools due to an insecure usage of syslog in the logging code. Please mention the CVE name CVE-2006-0083 in the changelog when fixing this bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#345604: ConTeXt documentation is non-free

2006-01-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Frank Küster: Florian, are you on a general search for non-free docs, and looking at more files in tetex-doc? Then please also send a Debbugs-Cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Woeful copyright file). I'm aware of that bug report, but think of it as a separate matter (especially the tex.web status

Bug#345604: ConTeXt documentation is non-free

2006-01-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Frank Küster: #218195 is about the woeful copyright file, not the woeful copyright of a particular file... What we really need to do is to sort out which parts of teTeX are under which license, and document that clearly (and remove if necessary), and to that end collecting information

Bug#347917: ocaml-mode on emacs-snapshot

2006-01-13 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: ocaml-mode Version: 3.09.1-1 Please enable ocaml-mode for emacs-snapshot (two edits are required in the install/ocaml-mode file). Basically functionality works, so there does not seem to be any reason to disable it. (Please consider enabling font-lock support by default, too.) -- To

Bug#342292: Fwd: Re: [vendor-sec] xpdf update - patch wrong?

2005-12-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Frank Küster: It also seems that there are some buffer overflows in 3.00 that do not have any tests, e.g. in XRef.cc, line 391 after patch-CAN-2004-0888 has been applied. Or is such a check if (newSize 0) { goto err1; } enough to detect an integer overflow, because

Bug#342550: firefox: Javascript, history.dat DoS

2005-12-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Kemp: My ff does not crashed, but it ate really much cpu-time when I tested slightly modified version of javascript. Not a security issue, just a DOS attack. Mozilla.org do not regard DOS attacks as security issues, so we cannot either. Even if the browser cannot be

Bug#342292: Fwd: Re: [vendor-sec] xpdf update - patch wrong?

2005-12-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Frank Küster: Would if (nTiles = INT_MAX / sizeof(JPXTile) { error(getPos(), Bad tile count in JPX SIZ marker segment); return gFalse; be okay? It might still be a DoS issue, I think. Allocating arbitrary amounts of memory upon user request is usually a bad idea.

Bug#332902: Accepted numerix 0.21-2 (source i386 all)

2005-12-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Mike Furr: So I reassigned 332902 to binutils and merged them. IMO, adding that option to all of OCaml is a bad idea based on the notes in the gcc manpage: Only use these options when there are significant benefits from doing so. When you specify these options, the assembler and

Bug#342292: Fwd: Re: [vendor-sec] xpdf update - patch wrong?

2005-12-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Frank Küster: The function that is called in *tetex-bin* is not gmallocn, but gmalloc - it's based on xpdf 3.00, not 3.01, and this is the very reason why I need to check for an overflow in nTiles * sizeof(JPXTile). Sure, I wanted to explain why this is not sufficient. It should be

Bug#342550: firefox: Javascript, history.dat DoS

2005-12-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Mike Hommey: Even if the browser cannot be restarted after the attack has been carried out? The impact of this bug is slightly different from other crash bugs. Are you sure the firefox process was not still running ? That would explain the browser not being able to restart... According

Bug#342292: Fwd: Re: [vendor-sec] xpdf update - patch wrong?

2005-12-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Martin Pitt: - For invalid (big) positive values of nObjs which, when multiplied with nObjs overflow an int, we have two cases: But neither ISO C nor GNU C make any promises regarding this case. Overflow is undefined, period. You can pass -fwrapv to gcc if you want modulo arithmetic for

Bug#342292: Fwd: Re: [vendor-sec] xpdf update - patch wrong?

2005-12-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Martin Pitt: Hi Florian! Florian Weimer [2005-12-09 11:53 +0100]: * Martin Pitt: - For invalid (big) positive values of nObjs which, when multiplied with nObjs overflow an int, we have two cases: But neither ISO C nor GNU C make any promises regarding this case. Overflow

Bug#342654: CVE-2005-4080: Bypass of input sanitising with Internet Explorer

2005-12-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ola Lundqvist: As i understand this article at gmane.org this is a IE bug. Fixing this in horde do not give much effect as it is just as simple to trigger this bug in any html page anywhere else. But these HTML pages cannot retrieve session authentication information from IMP. In the end,

Bug#342704: ocaml: FTBFS on hppa: Error: Field out of range [-262144..262143] (-267528).

2005-12-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Julien Cristau: ocaml FTBFS on hppa with the following error (from the build log): ../../ocamlcompopt.sh -warn-error Ay -I ../camlp4 -I ../boot -c -impl pa_o_fast.ppo [...] /tmp/camlasm6f9a2e.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/camlasm6f9a2e.s:97621: Error: Field out of range [-262144..262143]

Bug#342704: ocaml: FTBFS on hppa: Error: Field out of range [-262144..262143] (-267528).

2005-12-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Florian Weimer: This looks indeed like a GAS bug (or a miscompilation of GAS). The branch target is only a few hundred instructions away, so it should be reachable using a BL instruction. I was wrong, this is not a real GAS bug. (See the binutils list for a discussion.) The object file

Bug#341767: simple script causes sshd to run out of memory and die

2005-12-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Matthew Vernon: Dec 1 21:37:40 mpiblaster kernel: HighMem: empty Dec 1 21:37:40 mpiblaster kernel: Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0 Dec 1 21:37:40 mpiblaster kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 19833 (sshd). While infinite recursion is certainly a error

Bug#309599: your bug -- manpages-dev: Return value of res_search and friends

2005-12-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Justin Pryzby: tag 309599 moreinfo thanks Does this bug still apply? The relevant section says: The res_query(), res_search(), res_querydomain(), res_mkquery() and res_send() functions return the length of the response, or -1 if an error occurs. Which

Bug#343350: Cursors and DB_DBT_USERMEM

2005-12-14 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: libdb4.4 Version: 4.4.16-1 Tags: patch upstream If DBC-c_get is invoked with two DBTs with the DB_DBT_USERMEM flag, and the flag is DB_NEXT, and the key DBT is too small, and the value in the database is empty, DBC-c_get returns a DB_BUFFER_SMALL error code *and* advances the cursor.

Bug#342832: qa.debian.org: resolver in etch+ requires . suffix

2005-12-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* alex bodnaru: on the other hand, etch and sid can resolv the host only if i sufix the host name with `.', but the host can resolv the uml address. I'm sorry, but this can only be investigated if you provide the actual domain names involved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#342704: Disable HPPA native code compiler

2005-12-15 Thread Florian Weimer
Upstream has responded; they won't fix this, and they no longer maintain the native code compiler on HPPA. I susgest to disable it in the Debian package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#343466: XSS issue in mod_imap

2005-12-15 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: apache Tags: security upstream Severity: important Upstream reports a cross-site scripting issue in Apache: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37874 Impact does not seem to be substantial (rather obscure module, specific configuration required, only clients running IE

Bug#343467: [CVE-2005-3352] XSS issue in mod_imap

2005-12-15 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: apache2 Tags: security upstream Severity: important Upstream reports a cross-site scripting issue in Apache: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37874 Impact does not seem to be substantial (rather obscure module, specific configuration required, only clients running IE

Bug#343503: [CVE-2005-4048] avcodec_default_get_buffer heap overflow

2005-12-15 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: gst-ffmpeg Tags: security Severity: grave The package embeds a local copy of libavcodec, which is vulnerable to CVE-2005-4048: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/26558 http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2005-December/000979.html Please check if it is

Bug#343896: no longer works with HP iLO

2005-12-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Wichert Akkerman: debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version mpSSH_0.0.1 debug1: no match: mpSSH_0.0.1 Find out what (Open)SSH version this actually is, we can then add a regexp to set the proper compatibility flags. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#343896: no longer works with HP iLO

2005-12-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Wichert Akkerman: Previously Florian Weimer wrote: * Wichert Akkerman: debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version mpSSH_0.0.1 debug1: no match: mpSSH_0.0.1 Find out what (Open)SSH version this actually is, we can then add a regexp to set the proper compatibility

Bug#335997: flyspray: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities

2005-12-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thijs Kinkhorst: For the testing (etch) and unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.8-5. close 335997 0.9.8-4 -4 or -5? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#344106: ValueError: invalid Debian version string

2005-12-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* Nelson A. de Oliveira: While running debsecan, it's finishing with this error: ValueError: invalid Debian version string Could you me send me a compressed copy of your /var/lib/dpkg/status file? It probably contains some funny version string. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#344106: ValueError: invalid Debian version string

2005-12-20 Thread Florian Weimer
tag 344106 confirmed thanks * Nelson A. de Oliveira: Could you me send me a compressed copy of your /var/lib/dpkg/status file? It probably contains some funny version string. Attached. :-) The following entry is the culprit: Package: amsn Status: install ok installed Priority: optional

Bug#344204: [debsecan-create-cron] Wrong line in cron file

2005-12-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* Amaya Rodrigo Sastre: [EMAIL PROTECTED]debsecan-create-cron --suite sid /usr/sbin/debsecan-create-cron: cron file /etc/cron.d/debsecan created. debsecan-create-cron only takes a single argument, and copies to the cron job. I admit it's confusing, and I'm going to add a check to reject funny

Bug#344241: debsecan: not sure -- probably open issue is reported fixed

2005-12-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Yaroslav Halchenko: now you've got an active user/tester thus you might get an increase in the amount of bug reports :-) Thanks. On my first try of the package I've decided to do full system security upgrade, so I ran apt-get install $(debsecan --suite sid --format packages

Bug#328423: must be moved from recommeds to suggests

2005-11-02 Thread Florian Weimer
* Luca Capello: I'm in the process of debianize some CL software [1] and I've the same problem as bug #328423: some extra features of the package needs other packages to be installed, so I don't know if the package should use Suggests or Recommends. Use Recommends: if the functionality added

Bug#336342: Clarify permitted epoch values

2005-11-03 Thread Florian Weimer
retitle 336342 Clarify permitted epoch values thanks * Florian Weimer: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.2.1 Severity: normal In section 5.6.12, the permitted epoch values are not specified precisely. Large epochs tend to cause problems for some tools, for example dpkg, whose behavior

Bug#338077: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK

2005-11-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Lionel Elie Mamane: Please investigate this before uploading to Debian. Or alternatively, depend on the bible-kjv-text package, which already is in main. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#307299: TWiki.cfg

2005-11-10 Thread Florian Weimer
Could you show us your TWiki.cfg file, please? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#336719: Can you reproduce this on 4.5.3-4?

2005-11-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Hilko Bengen: db_query uses sprintf to replace placeholder expressions if passed more than one argument and it seems to me that using %s does the same thing as PHP's string expansion as in 4.5.3. What about SQL injection? Doesn't db_query protect against it, while PHP's string expansion

Bug#336719: Can you reproduce this on 4.5.3-4?

2005-11-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Hilko Bengen: Do you have any idea how the $key parameter to sess_destroy (includes/session.inc) is generated? It seems as if drupal uses the value generated by PHP, which would mean that it's not exploitable for SQL injection, but I'm not sure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#335476: nscd: Caches old IP-address

2005-11-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Dave Love: Yes, please turn off the default persistent caching of hosts (at least). I think this should also be done upstream. It can lead to lockout of logins in an obscure fashion -- at least it did on Fedora systems running what appears to be the same version of nscd with the same

Bug#344241: debsecan: not sure -- probably open issue is reported fixed

2005-12-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Yaroslav Halchenko: Please feel free to close the bug :-) I'm afraid; the other problematic packages you reported are real. So let's keep this bug open. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#264717: Status of CAN-2003-0693, CAN-2003-0682, CAN-2003-0695

2005-12-23 Thread Florian Weimer
Hi, would you please answer Joey's question if these security fixes have been applied in the ssh-krb5 package? Thanks, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#324254: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#324254: db4.3: Add NPTL versions of DSOs

2005-12-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Clint Adams: But you wouldn't object to a patch in principle, right? Nope. There seems to be a problem: The on-disk lock region format changes. This means that it's not worth the trouble, I guess. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#344976: syntax error on /var/lib/dpkg/info/debsecan.config

2005-12-28 Thread Florian Weimer
tags 344976 confirmed pending thanks * Nelson A. de Oliveira: Today while upgrading debsecan to version 0.3.2, I saw this error: Setting up debsecan (0.3.2) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/debsecan.config: 30: arith: syntax error: STATE + 1 dpkg: error processing debsecan (--configure): subprocess

Bug#344996: debsecan: ugly emails every hour

2005-12-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Zlatko Calusic: Package: debsecan Version: 0.3.2 Severity: normal I'm getting emails like this every hour: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/debsecan, line 875, in ? rate_system(target, options, fetch_data(options), history) File /usr/bin/debsecan, line 798, in

Bug#344996: debsecan: ugly emails every hour

2005-12-28 Thread Florian Weimer
tag 344996 confirmed thanks * Zlatko Calusic: This means that your /var/lib/dpkg/status file contains some invalid data. I'll investigate it if you can send mee a compressed copy. Interesting, I'll send you a copy off-list to help you debug it, sure. The culprit is: Package: nerolinux

Bug#345019: DB_REGISTER problem

2005-12-28 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: libdb4.4 Version: 4.4.16-3 Tags: upstream patch The patch below (from Keith Bostic/Sleepycat, posted to the comp.databases.berkeley-db newsgroup) fixes a problem with DB_REGISTER support. I'm not yet sure if this fixes my problem mentioned on the pkg-db mailiung list, but I hope so.

Bug#345238: Shell command injection in delegate code (via file names)

2005-12-29 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: imagemagick Version: 6.2.4.5-0.3 Tags: security The delegate code in Imagemagick is vulnerable to shell command injection, using specially crafted file names: $ cp /usr/lib/openoffice/share/template/en-US/wizard/bitmap/germany.wmf \ ' ; echo Hi! 2; : '.gif $ display ' ; echo Hi! 2; :

Bug#345158: debsecan: proftpd is reported to be remotely exploitable on sarge but it's not

2005-12-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Cyril Bouthors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# debsecan --only-fixed --suite sarge CVE-2005-0034 libdns11 (fixed, remotely exploitable, obsolete) obsolete means that a package of that name is no longer available from the archive. The

Bug#345158: debsecan: proftpd is reported to be remotely exploitable on sarge but it's not

2005-12-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Cyril Bouthors: ii proftpd 1.2.10-15sarge1.0.1 Versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon Ah, this version has been binary-NMUed, and I didn't think about that. I think I've fixed the server-side data generation (it's r3179 in the secure-testing repository, for future reference). No client-side

Bug#345238: Shell command injection in delegate code (via file names)

2005-12-30 Thread Florian Weimer
severity 345238 grave thanks With some user interaction, this is exploitable through Gnus and Thunderbird. I think this warrants increasing the severity to grave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#345469: DOS/hang

2005-12-31 Thread Florian Weimer
tag 345469 -security merge 340283 345469 thanks * Joey Hess: This web page, which was originally developed as a proof of concept for a different security hole in MSIE, makes firefox spin, consuming cpu and being completly unresponsive to user input until killed.

Bug#345158: debsecan: proftpd is reported to be remotely exploitable on sarge but it's not

2006-01-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Cyril Bouthors: This sounds like an interesting application. If you find the output format too difficult to parse, I can add yet another one to accommodate your needs. The most important thing is the return code. After a quick overview, it seems that debsecan is inconditionnally

Bug#345158: debsecan: proftpd is reported to be remotely exploitable on sarge but it's not

2006-01-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Cyril Bouthors: On top of that, libcurl3 is not listed as obsolete and is not fixed nor vulnerable : web8:~# debsecan --only-fixed --suite sarge | grep -v obsolete CVE-2005-4077 libcurl3 (fixed, medium urgency) web8:~# apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl3 is already the newest version.

Bug#345158: debsecan: proftpd is reported to be remotely exploitable on sarge but it's not

2006-01-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Cyril Bouthors: By the way, I have those very old packages installed on a machine that are not reported by debsecan and I guess they have many security issues: kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686 install kernel-image-2.4.25-1-686-smp install

Bug#345158: debsecan: proftpd is reported to be remotely exploitable on sarge but it's not

2006-01-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Cyril Bouthors: On 30 Dec 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: obsolete means that a package of that name is no longer available from the archive. I think it shouldn't appear with --only-fixed because obsolete packages are not fixed. What do you think? I disagree because --only-fixed

Bug#345256: debsecan: /etc/cron.d/debsecan should be owned by the package

2006-01-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Cyril Bouthors: /etc/cron.d/debsecan should be owned by the package [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /etc/cron.d/debsecan dpkg: /etc/cron.d/debsecan not found. Please add it to debian/conffiles. As far as I understand Policy, the current approach is explicitly permitted. Why do you want me

Bug#345604: ConTeXt documentation is non-free

2006-01-01 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: tetex-doc Version: 3.0-11 Severity: serious The license is clearly non-free: | All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, | stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any | means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,

Bug#345238: Shell command injection in delegate code (via file names)

2006-01-02 Thread Florian Weimer
retitle 345238 [CVE-2005-4601] Shell command injection in delegate code (via file names) thanks This issue has been assigned CVE-2005-4601. Please mention this identifier in the changelog when fixing this bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#328365: temporary file race in texindex

2005-10-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Norbert Preining: + fd = open (name, O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_WRONLY, 0666); 0600? 0666 might lead to an information leak. @@ -1615,14 +1626,15 @@ /* Return a newly-allocated string concatenating S1 and S2. */ This comment is outdated after the patch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#332259: spampd fails with 'Error in process_request': Modification of read-only variable in Syslog.pm

2005-10-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Sven Mueller: I created a fixed package (actually two: one for sid/etch and one for sarge), available at https://mail.incase.de/spampd/sarge-security/ respectively at https://mail.incase.de/spampd/sid/ (until my sponsor finds the time to upload the latter to sid). Personally, I'm

Bug#333497: CAN-2005-2971: Heap overflow in kword's RTF import

2005-10-12 Thread Florian Weimer
Note that according to the Ubuntu advisory, this bug might also be present in the koffice-libs package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#318099: [CAN-2005-2096] statically linked copy of zlib

2005-10-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Debian Bug Tracking System: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #318099: lsb-rpm: [CAN-2005-2096] statically linked copy of zlib, which was filed against the lsb-rpm package. How was it fixed? Is zlib still being linked statically? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#335260: ITP: dnspython -- DNS toolkit for Python

2005-10-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Florian Ragwitz: * URL : http://dnspython.org It's http://www.dnspython.org/. If I understand the Python policy correctly, the package should be called python-dns. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#333433: CVE assignment for phpmyadmin file inclusion issue

2005-10-24 Thread Florian Weimer
The CVE project has assigned the name CVE-2005-3299 to this vulnerability. Please mention it in the changelog when uploading fixed packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#335306: CVE assignment

2005-10-24 Thread Florian Weimer
The CVE project has assigned the name CVE-2005-3300 to this vulnerability. Please mention it in the changelog when uploading fixed packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#335513: CVE-2005-3301: XSS in left.php, queryframe.php, server_databases.php

2005-10-24 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: phpmyadmin Version: 4:2.6.4-pl2-1 Severity: important Tags: security See upstreams announcement PMASA-2005-5: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2005-5 This set of issues is being tracked as CVE-2005-3301. Please mention this name in the changelog when

Bug#335455: subversion fails to build with libdb4.3-dev

2005-10-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adam Conrad: As for rebuilding with libdb4.3, I've committed the changes required to do this to SVN, and tested packages, and they seem fine. Someone should probably write a nice NEWS.Debian entry telling people that they need to do repository upgrades of one sort or another (dump/load,

Bug#322495: cogito: please update

2005-10-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Andres Salomon: Is there some reason you don't want to simply conflict w/ the GNU Interactive Tools package? You could provide up-to-date cogito/git-core packages for use while working w/ the GIT people to rename their project... Policy explicitly forbids this, in section 10.1. -- To

Bug#335651: libsqlite-ocaml-dev: fails compilation in native code

2005-10-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Flavio Grossi: without problems, but if I try to compile in native code I get $ ocamlopt -I +sqlite sqlite.cmxa test.ml /usr/lib/ocaml/3.08.3/sqlite/libsqlite.a(sqlite_stubs.o): In function `raise_sqlite_error': : undefined reference to `sqlite_freemem' Could you show us the output of

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