[SECURITY] [DSA 449-1] New metamail packages fix arbitrary code execution

2004-02-24 Thread Martin Schulze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 449-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 24th, 2004

Re: Tripwire (clone) which would you prefer?

2004-02-24 Thread Javier Fernndez-Sanguino Pea
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:50:27PM +0100, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: samhain (in unstable, should be easy to backport) which has some interesting features. And those interesting features should make you cautious before you deploy samhain in production environment. I find it rather intrusive.

Re: Tripwire (clone) which would you prefer?

2004-02-24 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
In what sense? Logging to syslog/email/external database and signing the Bringing machine to knees seems pretty intrusive to me. Samhain runs as deamon, and IIRC it scans running processes and does other things in effort to detect trojans and lkms. This activity used to boost idle load avg

Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...

2004-02-24 Thread Elie Rosenblum
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:15:36AM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:12:44PM -0600, Hhayes wrote: I have a Debian box running as a file server on a network with 50 users. So (...) saved the file, resulting in a file that no other users can write to. Has

Re: chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-02-24 Thread Martin G.H. Minkler
Alohá! Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:14:05AM +0200, Sneferu wrote: Looks like there are a lot of false positives on it. It looks like there are a lot of false positives with chkrootkit in general. Seriously, has anybody here ever had chkrootkit detect an actual

Re: chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-02-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:37:44AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:14:05AM +0200, Sneferu wrote: Looks like there are a lot of false positives on it. It looks like there are a lot of false positives with chkrootkit in general. Seriously, has anybody here ever

Re: chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-02-24 Thread Jim Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:32:26 +0100, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running Debian on a Dec Alpha PC164. I decided to run chkrootkit and was surprised by the following line. Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 1524 31337) I am not

Dsniff/mailsnarf

2004-02-24 Thread tps
I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that mailsnarf would be the best way to do this. Right. In testing, if I run: mailsnarf -i eth2 . tcp I get all email. If I run mailsnarf -i eth2 .*STD.* tcp,

Re: Dsniff/mailsnarf

2004-02-24 Thread John Keimel
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:11:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that mailsnarf would be the best way to do this. Aside from any of hte technical details of

Re: Dsniff/mailsnarf

2004-02-24 Thread elijah wright
I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that mailsnarf would be the best way to do this. Aside from any of hte technical details of this, I'm kind of wondering how this fits into HIPPA and it's

Re: no valid Release.gpg file for woody and non-US

2004-02-24 Thread emagnien
free2.org wrote: since a few days there is no more valid Release.gpg file for woody and non-US apt-check-sigs says NO VALID SIGNATURE no problem with sarge, sid and security updates i do have the ftp master keys 2003 and 2004 Looking at some ftp mirrors, it seems that Release.gpg has been updated

Re: Dsniff/mailsnarf

2004-02-24 Thread tps
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:19:48PM -0500, John Keimel wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:11:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that mailsnarf would be the

Re: Dsniff/mailsnarf

2004-02-24 Thread tps
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:20:01PM -0600, elijah wright wrote: I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that mailsnarf would be the best way to do this. Aside from any of hte technical

Re: Dsniff/mailsnarf

2004-02-24 Thread Jose Alberto
John Keimel wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:11:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that mailsnarf would be the best way to do this. Aside from any of hte

chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-02-24 Thread Greg
I am running Debian on a Dec Alpha PC164. I decided to run chkrootkit and was surprised by the following line. Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 1524 31337) I am not sure how no interpret this. I have checked logs, as well as binary checks and everything seems fine. Can someone help

Re: chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-02-24 Thread Ricardo Kustner
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 07:53, Greg wrote: I am running Debian on a Dec Alpha PC164. I decided to run chkrootkit and was surprised by the following line. Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 1524 31337) Try a nmap port scan from the outside to your ip address. If those ports are

Re: chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-02-24 Thread Sneferu
You might not be hacked after all. Read this: http://www.webhostgear.com/25.html Also some googling might help ;-) http://www.google.ro/search?q=%27bindshell%27...+INFECTED+%28PORTS%3A++1524+31337ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8hl=robtnG=Caut%C4%83meta= Looks like there are a lot of false positives on it.

Re: chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-02-24 Thread Igor L. Balusov
May be you have installed fakebo? Billy

Re: chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-02-24 Thread Gytis
31337 - are your runing portsentry on that machine ? Quote from the www.chkrootkit.org site: I'm running PortSentry/klaxon. What's wrong with the bindshell test? If you're running PortSentry/klaxon or another program that binds itself to unused ports probably chkrootkit will give you a false

Re: Tripwire (clone) which would you prefer?

2004-02-24 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:50:27PM +0100, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: samhain (in unstable, should be easy to backport) which has some interesting features. And those interesting features should make you cautious before you deploy samhain in production environment. I find it rather intrusive.

Re: Tripwire (clone) which would you prefer?

2004-02-24 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
In what sense? Logging to syslog/email/external database and signing the Bringing machine to knees seems pretty intrusive to me. Samhain runs as deamon, and IIRC it scans running processes and does other things in effort to detect trojans and lkms. This activity used to boost idle load avg

Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...

2004-02-24 Thread Elie Rosenblum
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:15:36AM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:12:44PM -0600, Hhayes wrote: I have a Debian box running as a file server on a network with 50 users. So (...) saved the file, resulting in a file that no other users can write to. Has

Re: chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-02-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:14:05AM +0200, Sneferu wrote: Looks like there are a lot of false positives on it. It looks like there are a lot of false positives with chkrootkit in general. Seriously, has anybody here ever had chkrootkit detect an actual rootkit? Questions about its output

Re: chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-02-24 Thread Martin G.H. Minkler
Alohá! Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:14:05AM +0200, Sneferu wrote: Looks like there are a lot of false positives on it. It looks like there are a lot of false positives with chkrootkit in general. Seriously, has anybody here ever had chkrootkit detect an actual

Re: chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-02-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:37:44AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:14:05AM +0200, Sneferu wrote: Looks like there are a lot of false positives on it. It looks like there are a lot of false positives with chkrootkit in general. Seriously, has anybody here ever

Re: chkrootkit - possible bad news`

2004-02-24 Thread Jim Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:32:26 +0100, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running Debian on a Dec Alpha PC164. I decided to run chkrootkit and was surprised by the following line. Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 1524 31337) I am not

Dsniff/mailsnarf

2004-02-24 Thread tps
I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that mailsnarf would be the best way to do this. Right. In testing, if I run: mailsnarf -i eth2 . tcp I get all email. If I run mailsnarf -i eth2 .*STD.* tcp,

Re: Dsniff/mailsnarf

2004-02-24 Thread John Keimel
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:11:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that mailsnarf would be the best way to do this. Aside from any of hte technical details of

Re: Dsniff/mailsnarf

2004-02-24 Thread elijah wright
I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that mailsnarf would be the best way to do this. Aside from any of hte technical details of this, I'm kind of wondering how this fits into HIPPA and it's

Re: no valid Release.gpg file for woody and non-US

2004-02-24 Thread emagnien
free2.org wrote: since a few days there is no more valid Release.gpg file for woody and non-US apt-check-sigs says NO VALID SIGNATURE no problem with sarge, sid and security updates i do have the ftp master keys 2003 and 2004 Looking at some ftp mirrors, it seems that Release.gpg has been

Re: Dsniff/mailsnarf

2004-02-24 Thread tps
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:19:48PM -0500, John Keimel wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:11:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that mailsnarf would be the

Re: Dsniff/mailsnarf

2004-02-24 Thread tps
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:20:01PM -0600, elijah wright wrote: I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that mailsnarf would be the best way to do this. Aside from any of hte technical

Re: Dsniff/mailsnarf

2004-02-24 Thread Jose Alberto
John Keimel wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:11:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that mailsnarf would be the best way to do this. Aside from any of hte