Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-05 Thread Nick Boyce
the debian-security archive but didn't hit any items discussing this, so maybe it's a dumb question - sorry, I'm a newb here. Thanks for _any_ comments at all. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Stenderup's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-06 Thread Nick Boyce
and push out stable signature updates - but I can see why that would be difficult to set policy for. Cheers, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- ... the fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by the superficial design flaws. Douglas Adams(1952 - 2001): So Long and Thanks For All The Fish

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-08 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 13:51:11 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:46:01AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: I'd suggest maybe a note about V1.8.4 being useless should be added to http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/snort.html, along with some advice about getting

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-10 Thread Nick Boyce
. I too don't want the unstable glibc - surely it means you have to replace just about every other binary on the system ? Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Petreley's First Law of Computer Journalism: No technology exists until Microsoft invents it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 265-1] -- BAD SIGNATURE !?

2003-03-21 Thread Nick Boyce
key, which validated OK. Anyone else ? Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: is this an attack ?

2003-03-29 Thread Nick Boyce
anything more helpful. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Remember - friends don't send friends HTML e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Probable SSH Vulnerability

2003-06-13 Thread Nick Boyce
. My 2p, etc. You probably already know all this. Do you *have* to have SSH1 enabled ? (Sorry if this is all off-target) Good luck Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Probable SSH Vulnerability

2003-06-16 Thread Nick Boyce
not Tim ? Or are you saying the computational effort involved is as huge as, say, a DES crack would be ? (i.e. only national security services and mobsters would have the resources ?) Cheers Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Yousa steala precious from meesa! - Jar-Jaromir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Probable SSH Vulnerability

2003-06-17 Thread Nick Boyce
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:34:32 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These attacks require wiretapping and traffic manipulation capabilities. I'd be interested if you could expand on this - do you mean a connection to the victim's LAN is necessary ? LAN or WAN

Re: recommendations for FTP server

2003-06-20 Thread Nick Boyce
keystore. Seems nice and stable to me. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Microsoft may provide updates that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play content and use other software on your computer. -- http://bsdvault.net

Re: secure FTP clients [was: recommendations for FTP server]

2003-06-22 Thread Nick Boyce
On 21 Jun 2003 10:44:47 +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ GUI Win32 client that does FTP, FTP over SSL, and SFTP. Apparently has some integration with PuTTY,though I can't currently figure out how to get FileZilla to use

Re: certificate server (ejbca)

2003-11-05 Thread Nick Boyce
with ? Thanks, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- ... the fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by the superficial design flaws. Douglas Adams(1952 - 2001): So Long and Thanks For All The Fish. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: strange reboot on woody

2003-12-02 Thread Nick Boyce
command, that is logged as a reason: field of the syslog entry). Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Attempts to poison bayesian systems

2003-12-23 Thread Nick Boyce
bayesian systems by loading them up with all sorts of normal words so that good mail gets false positives, thus breaking the systems. That sounds plausible :-( Merry Happy Season Of Jollyness everyone Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- The 2003 Perl Advent Calendar: http://perladvent.org/2003

Re: Current Stable Kernel 2.4.18 Source deb ?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:16:26 +0100, Maurizio Lemmo wrote: On sabato 03 gennaio 2004, alle 05:26, Nick Boyce wrote: I'd be grateful if someone could please try to deconfuse me about what the current stable kernel 2.4.18 source package is .. DSA 403-1 (http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa

Re: Infrastructer back online?

2004-01-09 Thread Nick Boyce
/20031121) for more details Which is the announcement about the November compromise. That makes it sound like it _is_ a security issue .. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Ok spammer, I'll 'just hit delete'. You can be 'Delete'. -- Ron SuperTroll Ritzman, NANAE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

How To Set Up Mail-out-only System ?

2004-02-10 Thread Nick Boyce
. If this was NetBSD, I'd set something like exim=no in somewhere like rc.conf ... is there a Debian equivalent to that ? TIA for any advice. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How To Set Up Mail-out-only System ?

2004-02-10 Thread Nick Boyce
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:53:38 +1000, Clayton Russell wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 11:41, Nick Boyce wrote: Sorry if this is a dumb question ... I've just set up a secure (you know .. more than usual) Debian system, and want to arrange things so that it can send mail out when necessary

Re: How To Set Up Mail-out-only System ?

2004-02-10 Thread Nick Boyce
attack surface of the dedicated mailers is a Good Thing I suppose. I may need timely notifications from this box (ok, it's an IDS), so I don't want to rely on periodic cron-initiated mailer runs. Again, many thanks for all the help. Nick Boyce Bristol, Uk -- We did a risk management review. We

OpenSSL version command

2004-03-19 Thread Nick Boyce
... when you ask it things :) Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenSSL version command

2004-03-19 Thread Nick Boyce
On Saturday 20 Mar 2004 1:56 am, Nick Boyce wrote: Couldn't it say something like OpenSSL version OpenSSL 0.9.6c - Debian 19 jan 2004 I meant 19 mar 2004 ... It's been a long day :-/ Cheers, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Updating Kernel Using make-kpkg - Not Intuitive ?

2004-03-20 Thread Nick Boyce
for my observation I'd be grateful. debian-user ? debian-dpkg ? Maybe a usability bug filed against make-kpkg ? Or maybe I'm missing some point, and the above comments belong in the trash. Comments/flames welcome. Cheers Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Updating Kernel Using make-kpkg - Not Intuitive ?

2004-03-22 Thread Nick Boyce
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:27:52 -0700, Stephen Keeling wrote: Incoming from Nick Boyce: Otherwise, I suggest you move /lib/modules/2.4.18 out of the way, perhaps to /lib/modules/2.4.18.old or something, and then try re-installing this image. [snip] What on earth is this trying to say to me

Re: possible samba security problem

2005-01-28 Thread Nick Boyce
it should be okay to simply change the permissions on /var/run/samba/locking.tdb so only root can access it. There's no real need for ordinary users to use smbstatus anyway. IMHO. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Expert, n.: Someone who comes from out of town and shows slides -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Permissions Required On hosts.allow ?

2002-08-28 Thread Nick Boyce
so much longer to start up a session ... ] TIA, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- The universe is entering maintenance mode in 2 minutes. Please logout. -- Your administrator

Re: Permissions Required On hosts.allow ?

2002-08-29 Thread Nick Boyce
(say) _depends_ on having its group telnetd membership for some purpose though .. Cheers, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Microsoft may provide updates that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play content and use other software

Re: Permissions Required On hosts.allow ?

2002-08-29 Thread Nick Boyce
a thorough knowledge of the source code (which I don't have) can elicit - that's why I sought comments :) I'm still not sure about it. Cheers, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Ok spammer, I'll 'just hit delete'. You can be 'Delete'. -- Ron SuperTroll Ritzman, NANAE

Re: Permissions Required On hosts.allow ?

2002-09-01 Thread Nick Boyce
to achieve it I'd be very interested to hear about any such options in the Linux world. AFAIK, Linux ACL facilities are still experimental (http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/kernel-patch-acl.html) Thanks for your commentary, which was welcome. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- The last ~700

Re: Permissions Required On hosts.allow ?

2002-09-01 Thread Nick Boyce
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:38:45 -0400, Edward Guldemond wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:51:14AM +0100, Nick Boyce wrote: I decided to start locking down permissions on sensitive files on a recently installed Woody box, and discovered that when I changed the permissions on hosts.allow

Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-05 Thread Nick Boyce
the debian-security archive but didn't hit any items discussing this, so maybe it's a dumb question - sorry, I'm a newb here. Thanks for _any_ comments at all. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Stenderup's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up.

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-06 Thread Nick Boyce
and push out stable signature updates - but I can see why that would be difficult to set policy for. Cheers, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- ... the fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by the superficial design flaws. Douglas Adams(1952 - 2001): So Long and Thanks For All The Fish.

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-08 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 13:51:11 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:46:01AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: I'd suggest maybe a note about V1.8.4 being useless should be added to http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/snort.html, along with some advice about getting

Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-16 Thread Nick Boyce
the Snort package altogether in these circumstances. What would be quicker : remove the package, or add the warning to the web-page ? I guess we ought to do *something*. Comments ? Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Special Relativity: The person in the other queue thinks yours is moving faster.

Re: FTP-SSL

2002-12-20 Thread Nick Boyce
to if it cannot.) cut === Hope some of that helps :) Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Special Relativity: The person in the other queue thinks yours is moving faster.

Re: Need an advise about isolating a host in the DMZ

2002-12-20 Thread Nick Boyce
codebase that it seems worth switching to one that's completely new and unrelated.) Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- ... the fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by the superficial design flaws. Douglas Adams(1952 - 2001): So Long and Thanks For All The Fish.

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 265-1] -- BAD SIGNATURE !?

2003-03-21 Thread Nick Boyce
key, which validated OK. Anyone else ? Nick Boyce Bristol, UK

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 265-1] -- BAD SIGNATURE !?

2003-03-23 Thread Nick Boyce
On Saturday 22 Mar 2003 6:36 am, Martin Schulze wrote: Nick Boyce wrote : I get a bad signature reported by Kmail on this announcement. Saving the message out to a text file and verifying manually also fails : Ditch KMail, it is a permanent source of problems when it comes to digital

Re: is this an attack ?

2003-03-29 Thread Nick Boyce
anything more helpful. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Remember - friends don't send friends HTML e-mail

Kernel ptrace Hole - Fix For i386 ?

2003-04-14 Thread Nick Boyce
been over a couple of weeks now, and still no i386 fix. The fix is in vanilla kernel 2.4.20 as I understand it, and it sounds like some people here are downloading that source for their Woody i386 systems. Anyone know what the official plan is ? Thanks Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Spence's Admonition

Re: Snort exploit in wild.

2003-04-25 Thread Nick Boyce
there's no easy way to incorporate up-to-date signatures (rules) into Debian. Cheers, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Boycott Amazon till they relent on the 1-click software patent - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-07 Thread Nick Boyce
it is created insecurely allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files So if you're the only user on the machine then I suppose you needn't worry. Cheers Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- There is no spoon.

Re: Probable SSH Vulnerability

2003-06-13 Thread Nick Boyce
. My 2p, etc. You probably already know all this. Do you *have* to have SSH1 enabled ? (Sorry if this is all off-target) Good luck Nick Boyce Bristol, UK

Re: Probable SSH Vulnerability

2003-06-16 Thread Nick Boyce
not Tim ? Or are you saying the computational effort involved is as huge as, say, a DES crack would be ? (i.e. only national security services and mobsters would have the resources ?) Cheers Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Yousa steala precious from meesa! - Jar-Jaromir

Re: Probable SSH Vulnerability

2003-06-17 Thread Nick Boyce
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:34:32 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These attacks require wiretapping and traffic manipulation capabilities. I'd be interested if you could expand on this - do you mean a connection to the victim's LAN is necessary ? LAN or WAN

Re: recommendations for FTP server

2003-06-20 Thread Nick Boyce
keystore. Seems nice and stable to me. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Microsoft may provide updates that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play content and use other software on your computer. -- http://bsdvault.net

Re: secure FTP clients [was: recommendations for FTP server]

2003-06-22 Thread Nick Boyce
On 21 Jun 2003 10:44:47 +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ GUI Win32 client that does FTP, FTP over SSL, and SFTP. Apparently has some integration with PuTTY,though I can't currently figure out how to get FileZilla to use

Re: certificate server (ejbca)

2003-11-05 Thread Nick Boyce
with ? Thanks, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- ... the fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by the superficial design flaws. Douglas Adams(1952 - 2001): So Long and Thanks For All The Fish.

Re: strange reboot on woody

2003-12-02 Thread Nick Boyce
to the shutdown command, that is logged as a reason: field of the syslog entry). Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad?

Re: Attempts to poison bayesian systems

2003-12-23 Thread Nick Boyce
bayesian systems by loading them up with all sorts of normal words so that good mail gets false positives, thus breaking the systems. That sounds plausible :-( Merry Happy Season Of Jollyness everyone Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- The 2003 Perl Advent Calendar: http://perladvent.org/2003/

Current Stable Kernel 2.4.18 Source deb ?

2004-01-02 Thread Nick Boyce
since the DSA ? TIA for any light anyone can shed. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- We did a risk management review. We concluded that there was no risk of any management. -- Hugo Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Current Stable Kernel 2.4.18 Source deb ?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:16:26 +0100, Maurizio Lemmo wrote: On sabato 03 gennaio 2004, alle 05:26, Nick Boyce wrote: I'd be grateful if someone could please try to deconfuse me about what the current stable kernel 2.4.18 source package is .. DSA 403-1 (http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa

Re: Current Stable Kernel 2.4.18 Source deb ?

2004-01-04 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:16:57 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:26:41AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: DSA 403-1 (http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-403) states that the do_brk security hole was fixed in vanilla kernel 2.4.23, and that For Debian it has been fixed

Re: Infrastructer back online?

2004-01-09 Thread Nick Boyce
/20031121) for more details Which is the announcement about the November compromise. That makes it sound like it _is_ a security issue .. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Ok spammer, I'll 'just hit delete'. You can be 'Delete'. -- Ron SuperTroll Ritzman, NANAE

Re: Hacked - is it my turn?

2004-02-02 Thread Nick Boyce
dumb blind if someone sends you spoofed packets. I _think_ the current wisdom is that Port Sentry is an all round Bad Idea, but maybe it's just a religious thing ..] Somebody please tell me if I'm wrong here. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- I tried to patent patent barratry as a business model

How To Set Up Mail-out-only System ?

2004-02-10 Thread Nick Boyce
. If this was NetBSD, I'd set something like exim=no in somewhere like rc.conf ... is there a Debian equivalent to that ? TIA for any advice. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK

Re: How To Set Up Mail-out-only System ?

2004-02-10 Thread Nick Boyce
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:53:38 +1000, Clayton Russell wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 11:41, Nick Boyce wrote: Sorry if this is a dumb question ... I've just set up a secure (you know .. more than usual) Debian system, and want to arrange things so that it can send mail out when necessary

Re: How To Set Up Mail-out-only System ?

2004-02-10 Thread Nick Boyce
attack surface of the dedicated mailers is a Good Thing I suppose. I may need timely notifications from this box (ok, it's an IDS), so I don't want to rely on periodic cron-initiated mailer runs. Again, many thanks for all the help. Nick Boyce Bristol, Uk -- We did a risk management review. We

OpenSSL version command

2004-03-19 Thread Nick Boyce
... when you ask it things :) Nick Boyce Bristol, UK

Re: OpenSSL version command

2004-03-19 Thread Nick Boyce
On Saturday 20 Mar 2004 1:56 am, Nick Boyce wrote: Couldn't it say something like OpenSSL version OpenSSL 0.9.6c - Debian 19 jan 2004 I meant 19 mar 2004 ... It's been a long day :-/ Cheers, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK

Updating Kernel Using make-kpkg - Not Intuitive ?

2004-03-20 Thread Nick Boyce
for my observation I'd be grateful. debian-user ? debian-dpkg ? Maybe a usability bug filed against make-kpkg ? Or maybe I'm missing some point, and the above comments belong in the trash. Comments/flames welcome. Cheers Nick Boyce Bristol, UK

Re: Updating Kernel Using make-kpkg - Not Intuitive ?

2004-03-22 Thread Nick Boyce
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:27:52 -0700, Stephen Keeling wrote: Incoming from Nick Boyce: Otherwise, I suggest you move /lib/modules/2.4.18 out of the way, perhaps to /lib/modules/2.4.18.old or something, and then try re-installing this image. [snip] What on earth is this trying to say to me

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 952-1] New libapache-auth-ldap packages fix arbitrary code execution

2006-01-29 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:56:50 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Nick Boyce: From this I infer that mod_auth_ldap for Debian-packaged Apache 2 must be included with the main Debian Apache packages, and that no libapache(2)-auth-ldap package is required - and that I therefore need fixed

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1156-1] New kdebase packages fix information disclosure

2006-08-30 Thread Nick Boyce
2b43b65830f35ea3619ff8596340031d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdebase/libkonq4-dev_3.3.2-1sarge3_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum:44922 d07fda73f6365a4470db2ac21030c906 Cheers, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- 'If you don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1156-1] New kdebase packages fix information disclosure

2006-09-01 Thread Nick Boyce
Florian Weimer wrote: * Nick Boyce: For interest, can anyone explain why a problem with kdm leads to the need to reissue so many KDE packages ? Security updates a performed on per source package (after all, we need to ship an updated source package to comply with the DFSG and various

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1156-1] New kdebase packages fix information disclosure

2006-09-01 Thread Nick Boyce
Nick Boyce wrote: I don't mean to complain - not being a developer I may well not be aware of some very good reason for it - but the pain that ensues for people like me, on dial-up links (don't ask ...), when we must download so many binaries just because something small like kdm has changed

Remote Root In Nvidia xserver Driver

2006-10-17 Thread Nick Boyce
are saying this is a local root exploit only, the bulletin points out it can be exploited by visiting a malicious webpage. Cheers Nick Boyce -- Will no one rid me of this troublesome chair ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

UPDATE: Remote Root In Nvidia xserver Driver

2006-11-10 Thread Nick Boyce
thanks lucky stars this bit of Debian stable is so far behind the bleeding edge :-) Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Will no one rid me of this troublesome chair ?

Re: [DSA 1466-1] New xorg-server packages fix several vulnerabilities

2008-01-18 Thread Nick Boyce
Slight typo : For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge6 of xfree86. s/etch/sarge/ Nick Boyce -- If you don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-26 Thread Nick Boyce
own ClamAV, but I'd rather stick with Debian ...] [1] http://bugs.debian.org/465207 Cheers Nick Boyce -- Microsoft suggests that users do not open or save Word files -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-27 Thread Nick Boyce
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Nick Boyce said: .. it seems to me that simply enabling the --unrar parameter of clamscan would not entail incorporating or distributing any unrar code at all - the code to parse the --unrar parameter and call the non-free unrar binary

Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-27 Thread Nick Boyce
Stefan Fritsch wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Nick Boyce wrote: But it seems to me that simply enabling the --unrar parameter of clamscan would not entail incorporating or distributing any unrar code at all - the code to parse the --unrar parameter and call the non-free unrar binary

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1571-1] New openssl packages fix predictable random number generator

2008-05-13 Thread Nick Boyce
the idea : http://marc.info/?t=11465108893r=1w=2 As the /. post says, Hats off to the reviewer who picked up on the problem. Cheers, Nick Boyce -- Leave the Olympics in Greece, where they belong. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1605-1] DNS vulnerability impact on the libc stub resolver

2008-07-08 Thread Nick Boyce
resolver ? All systems which *don't* have BIND installed ? Cluebats welcome. Cheers Nick Boyce -- Leave the Olympics in Greece, where they belong. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and recent TCP vulnerability

2009-09-11 Thread Nick Boyce
HTTP 1.1 pipelining for some reason (proxy issues ?). Cheers Nick Boyce -- But if we find we have left our bones to bleach in these desert sands for nothing, beware the fury of the legions... -- Centurion in a letter home from North Africa 3rd Century -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Heads-up: EXIM remote root exploit published

2010-12-11 Thread Nick Boyce
Just FYI: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Dec/222 contains a Perl script claimed to be based on the Metasploit module. Contains this comment: #Exim 4.63 (RedHat/Centos/Debian) Remote Root Exploit by Kingcope Untested by me. Cheers Nick Boyce -- I like paying taxes. With them I buy

Re: Lenny version info

2010-12-16 Thread Nick Boyce
[sigh] ... okay On 15/12/2010 12:00, John Keimel wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2b3g2l4 Also, since you need it: http://tinyurl.com/ybpctcz Please particularly note items on jeopardy reply or Top posting and trimming. +1 Nick -- Posting at the top because that's where the cursor

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2162-1] openssl security update

2011-02-14 Thread Nick Boyce
On 14/02/2011 16:28, Nico Golde wrote: We recommend that you upgrade your invalid memory access packages. This has been a mistake during the auto-generation of the DSA template. Of course thsi should say your openssl packages. [ahem] Erm ... missing .. [cough] .. exit-status check in the

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2695-1] chromium-browser security update

2013-06-02 Thread Nick Boyce
On Wednesday 29 May 2013 15:23:54 Michael Gilbert wrote: or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. I'm just wondering ... is that Google language for or possibly allow remote code execution ? The phrase occurs for many of the vulnerabilities listed in the advisory, and

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2695-1] chromium-browser security update

2013-06-02 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sunday 02 Jun 2013 16:13:43 Michael Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Nick Boyce wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2013 15:23:54 Michael Gilbert wrote: or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. I'm just wondering ... is that Google language

Re: Compromising Debian Repositories

2013-08-03 Thread Nick Boyce
On Saturday 03 Aug 2013 20:33:03 Robert Tomsick wrote: On 08/03/13 13:36, Rick Moen wrote: [...] Indeed, this whole line of query (from someone who cannot even bother to read debian-legal and wants to be CCed; no thanks) is basically pretty dumb [...] I'm not sure that hostility is

Re: Please remove me from this list

2014-06-27 Thread Nick Boyce
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:43:36 -0500 Scott Blaydes sblay...@netteksolutions.com wrote: Doesn’t it make you wonder about a company who’s Privacy, Security and Compliance Officer can’t figure out how to get off of a mailing list that he had to subscribe to and verify his address for? Yep - it's

RE: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates

2016-08-02 Thread Nick Boyce
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 08:25:01 -0700 Darren S. wrote: > There are aspects of the flashplugin-nonfree package I am hoping to > understand better in respect to installing the latest security updates > for the Adobe Flash plugin on a Debian host. [snip] > It appears that the

RE: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates

2016-08-03 Thread Nick Boyce
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 20:47:45 +0200 Moritz Mühlenhoff <j...@inutil.org> wrote: > Nick Boyce <n...@glimmer.demon.co.uk> schrieb: > > assuming Bart is MIA for some reason, is it possible > > for the Security Team to either fix the update, or to make an > > announce

RE: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates

2016-08-03 Thread Nick Boyce
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 17:55:43 +0800 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Nick Boyce wrote: [snip] > > I realise the nonfree plugin is not really supported, but ... > > assuming Bart is MIA for some reason, is it possible for the > >

RE: flashplugin-nonfree and latest Flash security updates

2016-08-03 Thread Nick Boyce
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 22:53:28 + Bart Martens wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 08:25:01AM -0700, Darren S. wrote: [...] > > 'update-flashplugin-nonfree --status` shows a newer release > > of the plugin upstream. > > > > > > options : --verbose --status -- > > temporary