Re: Stack Shield: defending from

1999-09-09 Thread Crispin Cowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps I don't see your point. How is this more secure than StackGuard? StackGuard protection system has an extremaly grave bug with the terminator and null canaries. In certain circumstances (not rare) this bug can be exploited preventing StackGuard to detect

Re: IE5 allows executing programs

1999-09-09 Thread David LeBlanc
A couple of people have sent me mail asking how to set Outlook 2000 such that mail comes in under the 'Restricted Sites' zone. Here's how: select Tools menu, Options item select security tab The area you want is in the middle of the page in the section marked 'Secure Content'. Default setting

Re: IE5 allows executing programs

1999-09-09 Thread Kragen Sitaker
David LeBlanc writes: YOU CAN GET THE USER TO EXECUTE ARBITRARY CODE. Period. End of story. What you do with that code is up to you. There is no need to delve into the details of just how you steal the lunch money from the end users. Well, it should be noted that there are things you can

Re: Root shell vixie cron exploit

1999-09-09 Thread John Kennedy
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 09:08:55PM +0400, Seva Gluschenko wrote: man sendmail: /-C ...skipping... -Cfile Use alternate configuration file. Sendmail refuses to run as root if an alternate configuration file is specified. and it does, for sure %-). Just tested this on

Re: VLAN Security

1999-09-09 Thread Tilman Schmidt
At 16:44 01.09.99 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [implementation of 802.1q VLANs on Cisco Catalyst 2900 series] This has been discussed with Cisco and we believe that it is an issue with the 802.1q specification rather than an implementation issue. I disagree. IMHO, the root of the matter is

Re: NSA key in MSFT Crypto API

1999-09-09 Thread Matt Blaze
Here's what I said about this on another list: I must admit that this doesn't make much sense to me. I was at Crypto, but I must have missed the rump session talk in question (and it's entirely possible that the talk occurred anyway - I was out of the room for a good deal of that session). In

Re: Debian not vulnerable to recent cron buffer overflow

1999-09-09 Thread Ethan King
Debian has discovered this bug two years ago and fixed it. Therefore versions in both, the stable and the unstable, distributions of Debian are not vulnerable to this problem.. Regardless of which, I was successfully able to take advantage of the overflow on Debian (GNU/Linux) 2.1,

Re: IE 5.0 allows executing programs

1999-09-09 Thread : dp :
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can manually download the updates at http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/corporate.asp Personally, I prefer to actually save the update files so that I don't need to download everything all over again whenever windows breaks and I have

Re: IE5 allows executing programs

1999-09-09 Thread Jesper M. Johansson
The other thing is that the default install for NT (especially on HP's) is FAT, Wrong. That could be how that manufacturer sets up _some_ of their machines, but it isn't default for NT install. Micron and Intergraph also install NT on FAT when they ship it to you. I can't think of many

Re: remote DoS against inetd and ssh

1999-09-09 Thread Alexander Boutkhoudze
patching: in rc.conf above inetd_flags type -l -R 1024? :) Hi, At the beginning i'd like to excuse all of you if it is commonly well known (hmm, i guess it is, but noone patched it ;. Both DoS`s use something known as portfuck (e.g. `while true; do telnet host port done`). 1. If you use it

Redhat 6.0 Password Issues

1999-09-09 Thread root3d
Gentleman; I submitted what I thought was a minor issue on Redhat's handling of passwords. Is it me? Is it something I missed? Any password you assign over 8 characters gets cut... At first I thought it was my system but its not since I tested it at home, but then at work its the same thing:

Re: limit maximum nr. of processes.

1999-09-09 Thread Andrea Costantino
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Alfonso Lazaro wrote: Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:18:02 +0200 From: Alfonso Lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: limit maximum nr. of processes. El dia Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:53:48AM +0200, Petter Wahlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: to

Re: IE5 allows executing programs

1999-09-09 Thread SysAdmin
Okay, I added a link to http://www.sassproductions.com/hacked.htm that allows you to test the exploit against a specific file. Specifically you need to copy Reg Edit to the program files folder and give it a whirl. As always, if you can't figure it out then View Source. Over and out, Seth

Re: NSA key in MSFT Crypto API

1999-09-09 Thread David U.
- Original Message - From: Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cypherpunks@Algebra. COM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Cryptography@C2. Net [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 12:21 AM Subject: NSA key in MSFT Crypto API Perhaps not surprisingly, the debugging

Re: Default configuration in WatchGuard Firewall

1999-09-09 Thread Steve Fallin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, September 4, a description of a potential problem with the WatchGuard Firebox default configuration file was posted to Bugtraq. At WatchGuard we take this sort of issue very seriously. When we saw the post, we initiated contact with the

Re: IE5 allows executing programs

1999-09-09 Thread J MacCraw
Does this writing to an EXE bypass Anti-Virus protection against programs that write to EXE's? How about a less damaging example that writes to say "C:\temp\example.exe" so we can see what it does safely? At 21:16 8/30/1999 -0400, SysAdmin Wrote: snip ANY Windows 98 file can be overwritten.

Re: I found this today and iam reporting it to you first!!! (fwd)

1999-09-09 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Wietse Venema wrote: Whatever reasoning the poster used, it is invalid with any reasonable mail system, because it is the mail system that chooses the bounce message originator address; the bounce message originator address is not under control by the attacker. In other

Re: MW

1999-09-09 Thread Stuart Harris
Was this part of a suse installation? Not part of SuSE 6 (which I use) or 5.2. What distro are you running? didn't he say SuSE? He probably got hacked some how and the hacker forgot to remove this. +-- + | Stuart Harris / Unix systems

Re: SCO 5.0.5 /bin/doctor local root comprimise

1999-09-09 Thread Seth R Arnold
confirmed to run under 5.0.4 as well. On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 05:20:17PM -0500, Brock Tellier wrote: Greetings, INFO: There is a local root comprimise in SCO 5.0.5's /bin/doctor 2.0.0e2 and probably others. By supplying a doctor script file you can read the first partial line of any

A real Windows 2000 Backdoor?

1999-09-09 Thread Mnemonix
There's been a lot of press recently about Windows 2000 backdoors such as the NSA key Crypto issue. I've been mulling over another "backdoor" for the past few days and the more I think about the more cynical I become. We has Windows 95, then were blessed with 98 and soon Windows 2000

Re: IE5 allows executing programs

1999-09-09 Thread Paul L Schmehl
Outlook Express 5 allows setting the Security Zones in the exact same way: Tools/Options/Security. So does Outlook 98. I don't think previous versions allowed it. --On 9/7/1999, 11:23 AM -0700 David LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what the variants of Outlook allow in this

Re: Local DoS on network by unpriviledged user using setsockopt()

1999-09-09 Thread John N Dvorak
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Dylan Griffiths wrote: John N Dvorak wrote: Sven, I have verified the following platforms: BSDI 2.1 BSDI 3.1 BSDI 4.0 BSDI 4.0.1 Cobalt Linux (MIPS) - RedHat based All vulnerable. I am testing on other Linux platforms, but I presume all BSD and Linux-based