Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1291-1] New samba packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2007-05-15 Thread Geoff Crompton
Nice work on getting this out. Is sarge going to get an update, is it even affected? I've looked into CVE-2007-2444, and http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23974/ says that the version in sarge is affected. -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data

Re: first A record of security.debian.org extremely slow

2006-03-01 Thread Geoff Crompton
, Debian security updates predated widespread (semi-)automated exploits by weeks. I'm also wondering if security.debian.org has enough resources for every single debian box on the planet checking it every X minutes. -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000

Re: Using multicast for security updates

2006-02-23 Thread Geoff Crompton
for the chunks to get distributed well through out the network. -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CVE-2006-0225, scponly shell command possible

2006-02-14 Thread Geoff Crompton
This bug has been closed for unstable (see bug 350964) with the 4.6 upload, but will it be fixed for sarge? -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Password authentication with LDAP and SSH

2006-01-31 Thread Geoff Crompton
requiredpam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5 try_first_pass -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 920-1] New ethereal packages fix arbitrary code execution

2005-12-13 Thread Geoff Crompton
distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.10-2sarge3. Looks like a typo, this last line should be: version 0.10.10-2sarge4 -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: chkrootkit has me worried!

2005-11-29 Thread Geoff Crompton
that static-page mode be the default since upstream's CGI default is (in my opinion) too risky, but I haven't done that yet. I would agree with that idea. In fact, I've just lodged a bug report along those lines. Bug #341308. -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3

Re: chkrootkit has me worried!

2005-11-29 Thread Geoff Crompton
with that idea. In fact, I've just lodged a bug report along those lines. Bug #341308. Thank you, Geoff! No worries. Jonas has already responded to the bug, he sounds in favour of it. I'm sure he'd appreciate patch suggestions on implementing it. -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator

clamav and magic byte

2005-11-02 Thread Geoff Crompton
Anyone know if clamav is vulnerable to the magic byte detection evasion issue discussed at http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15189? Or alternatively, can anyone work out if it is vulnerable? -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: On Mozilla-* updates

2005-07-29 Thread Geoff Crompton
in the code where the problems are. Then that person could release more detailed information about the fix after the embargo ends, which would benefit all other distributions in a similar position. Geoff Crompton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: a compromised machine

2005-07-24 Thread Geoff Crompton
necessary to see if you can identify how the attacker broke in. Otherwise you will find that after reinstalling, the attack will occur again. As Christoph mentioned, the logs are a good place to start. Geoff Crompton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

CAN-2005-0210, kernel netfilter dos memory leak

2005-03-29 Thread Geoff Crompton
On http://merkel.debian.org/~joeyh/testing-security.html this CAN is listed, as waiting for a 2.4.27-9 to fix this issue. The securityfocus article says that this is a 2.6.8 issue. Does anyone know if a fix for this has made it into a 2.6.8 debian kernel? -- Geoff Crompton Debian System

bid 12877, apache mod_ssl remote DoS

2005-03-29 Thread Geoff Crompton
Does anyone know if apache 1.3 is affected by the issue mentioned at http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12877 Also, anyone know how Debian stands with this? -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

apache and CAN-2003-0020

2005-03-22 Thread Geoff Crompton
find a DSA that corresponds to CAN-2003-0020. Does anyone know if Debian is vulnerable or fixed? -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apache and CAN-2004-0174

2005-03-22 Thread Geoff Crompton
Similarly to my last email, is Debian's apache affected by this? Further details on http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9921. Debian is listed as being vulnerable. It's a DoS involving a connection to a little used port. I've not found a correspondind DSA. -- Geoff Crompton Debian System

mysql in stable and remote vulnerabities

2005-03-16 Thread Geoff Crompton
-0710, CAN-2005-0711 Cheers -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packet sniffing regular users

2005-03-03 Thread Geoff Crompton
the packet. I have not investigated but think the kernel but think it would reliably respond and 99.99% of attackers would not realised they had been exposed. Assuming that the promiscuous machine has arp spoofed that mac address, so that the switch will pass the packet down that port. -- Geoff

2.6 kernel vulnerabilities

2005-02-24 Thread Geoff Crompton
Are the kernel team aware of http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12555, a bunch of vulnerablities in 2.6 kernels prior to 2.6.11-rc2. Or more generally, are these being tracked? And if so, by whom, and I should I keep asking them specifically rather than posting to debian-security? -- Geoff

libasound vulnerability

2005-02-24 Thread Geoff Crompton
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12575 Libasound 1.0.6 has a vulnerability. The sarge and sid versions are newer, and the woody version is much older. Anyone know if woody is affected? -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

kdelibs vuln, bugtraq 12525

2005-02-22 Thread Geoff Crompton
I haven't seen a DSA for kdelibs, according to: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12525 version 3.3.2 is vulnerable to a local file overwriting issue. Woody's clean, anyone know if the sid and sarge packages are affected? -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000

Re: kdelibs vuln, bugtraq 12525

2005-02-22 Thread Geoff Crompton
Geoff Crompton wrote: I haven't seen a DSA for kdelibs, according to: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12525 version 3.3.2 is vulnerable to a local file overwriting issue. Woody's clean, anyone know if the sid and sarge packages are affected? KDE is tracking the bug. http://bugs.kde.org

apache utilities insecure temp file creation vulnerability

2005-02-08 Thread Geoff Crompton
Has there been a DSA for apache, in relation to the securityfocus bugtraqID #12308? http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12308 Cheers -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

debian and CAN-2004-1237 vulnerability?

2005-02-08 Thread Geoff Crompton
Anyone know if any Debian kernels are vulnerable to CAN-2004-1237? Apparently it was originally just thought to be a redhat thing, but bugtraq recently said it was also found in suse. -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

bind vulnerabilities

2005-02-08 Thread Geoff Crompton
SecurityFocuse newsletter #286 lists some bind issues: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12364 CAN-2005-0033 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12365 CAN-2005-0034 Anyone know how Debian stands with these? -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000

Re: Compromised system - still ok?

2005-02-06 Thread Geoff Crompton
-installing it. However in my (fairly recent experience), it was _easier_ to reinstall than it was to check all those things. -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator Strategic Data +61 3 9340 9000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

any DSA for CAN-2004-0930

2004-11-16 Thread Geoff Crompton
Hi, Has there been any DSA released for CAN-2004-0930, an Input Vulnerability in Samba, 3.0 to 3.0.7. Ta -- Geoff Crompton Debian System Administrator StrategicData +61-3-9348-2013 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iptables - inside accessing outside ip and being bounced back inside

2003-11-30 Thread Geoff Crompton
You may find that the internal web server is sending its reply IP packets directly to the internal client, instead of via the firewall. This can occur if the internal client and the internal web server have the same subnet mask. The internal web server sends the packets straight back to the

Re: iptables - inside accessing outside ip and being bounced back inside

2003-11-30 Thread Geoff Crompton
You may find that the internal web server is sending its reply IP packets directly to the internal client, instead of via the firewall. This can occur if the internal client and the internal web server have the same subnet mask. The internal web server sends the packets straight back to the

Re: ssh + opie?

2003-08-14 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:55:16PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Bradley Alexander said on Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:36:06AM -0400: I tried to set this up again recently on another machine, and found that privelege separation breaks this functionality. Does anyone know of a workaround to

Re: ssh + opie?

2003-08-10 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:58:45AM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 04:21:50PM +1000, Geoff Crompton wrote: I have succesfully configued sshd to allow opie logons, without disabling PrivSep, by configuring pam to use the libpam-opie module for ssh. In this case

Re: ssh + opie?

2003-08-08 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:55:16PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Bradley Alexander said on Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:36:06AM -0400: I tried to set this up again recently on another machine, and found that privelege separation breaks this functionality. Does anyone know of a workaround to

Re: Keeping files away from users - THANKS!!

2003-06-06 Thread Geoff Crompton
(initially, at least) break it. I suppose if you used a BSD system, you could do this kernel modification and not have to provide the source. The userland side of the system is going to be very similar. Geoff Crompton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Keeping files away from users - THANKS!!

2003-06-05 Thread Geoff Crompton
(initially, at least) break it. I suppose if you used a BSD system, you could do this kernel modification and not have to provide the source. The userland side of the system is going to be very similar. Geoff Crompton

Re: Traffic monitoring

2003-03-14 Thread Geoff Crompton
: IP Accounting for iptables( kernel =2.4) Can do accounting on any iptable rule (as I understand it). iptables have the capability to match on owner: iptables -A INPUT -m owner --uid-owner 2 Cheers Geoff Crompton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Traffic monitoring

2003-03-14 Thread Geoff Crompton
--dport 1024 -m limit --limit 20/hour -j ULOG --ulog-prefix BPA (Checking with iptables-save -c reveals that the rule has been getting matches). Geoff Crompton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Traffic monitoring

2003-03-14 Thread Geoff Crompton
: IP Accounting for iptables( kernel =2.4) Can do accounting on any iptable rule (as I understand it). iptables have the capability to match on owner: iptables -A INPUT -m owner --uid-owner 2 Cheers Geoff Crompton

Re: Traffic monitoring

2003-03-14 Thread Geoff Crompton
--dport 1024 -m limit --limit 20/hour -j ULOG --ulog-prefix BPA (Checking with iptables-save -c reveals that the rule has been getting matches). Geoff Crompton

Re: slapper countermeasures

2002-09-18 Thread Geoff Crompton
of an infection' way. (I've been trying to think of a reason that the owner of an infected box would not appreciate efforts to sanitize the box). Geoff Crompton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: slapper countermeasures

2002-09-18 Thread Geoff Crompton
of an infection' way. (I've been trying to think of a reason that the owner of an infected box would not appreciate efforts to sanitize the box). Geoff Crompton

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-12 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:22:43AM +0200, Marcel Weber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Something that would be totally legal would be to send an email to the [EMAIL PROTECTED], in the hope, that they have such an email address. Of course one has to pay attention, that

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-12 Thread Geoff Crompton
Ok. So it is good to warn owners of cracked boxes. Does that mean it is good for me to walk into a house that has been robbed, and write a note to the owner that it has been robbed? In this case the analogy doesn't work so well, as the owner is more likely going to notice that the place

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Geoff Crompton
. It would be for the good of the net! They could be a part of the ICANN or UNO or whoever. Marcel Sounds like such an organization would be ripe for misuse by power hungry politicians/diplomats/whatever-you-call-them-power-hungry-people Geoff Crompton

Re: VPN between 2 dynamic ip's ?

2002-08-22 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 03:00:59PM -0400, Sean McAvoy wrote: Hello, I've successfully configured site to site VPN connections using FreeSwan, RSA keys, and using our own Dynamic DNS server (gnudip). It's a straight forward tunnel connection. Couple of points left= and right= should be FQDNs,

Re: IPSec VPN and Watchguard Firebox 2

2002-08-21 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:20:27PM +0200, Marcel Weber wrote: Hash: SHA1 Hi Does anybody know if there are any news concerning freeswan and Watchguard Firebox 2 interoperability? Some time ago I read that the two would not work together, as Watchguard does not use triple DES during

Re: VPN between 2 dynamic ip's ?

2002-08-21 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:57:32AM +0200, R?mi Letot wrote: Hi all, I'd like to setup a VPN between two hosts on cable connection. The problem is that they have dynamic ip's, and none of the two sides is permanently up (most of the time they are up, but it's not guaranteed at all).

Re: sources.list for potato

2002-06-20 Thread Geoff Crompton
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Re: sources.list for potato

2002-06-20 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:36, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Geoff Crompton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:22, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: (wait for official release updates) and then just s/potato/stable/g. Note that non-US is being phased out. Can you point me to the mail