Bug#547092: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#547092: Bug#547092: nrpe ssl security problem

2013-02-10 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Alex, > > All agreed... but would you consider to add some big warnings about that > > fact? :) > Thats something for the release notes or readme.debian. Feel free to send a > patch. I do not believe the issue should mean that NRPE is so critically flawed that it should be removed from Wheez

Bug#547092: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#547092: Bug#547092: nrpe ssl security problem

2013-02-08 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, 08 Feb 2013, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 00:26 +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > In fact nothing is new here and security wouldn't change much with different > > keys. The implementation ist just broken. But if you have an idea to improve > > it, feel free to sen

Bug#547092: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#547092: Bug#547092: nrpe ssl security problem

2013-02-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Off topic but... Hi Michael On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 00:55 +0100, Michael Friedrich wrote: > i've tried the idea of the ssl x509 patch in an unofficial nrpe fork. > lives in git here, until it dies, and will never get released, so > beware: https://git.icinga.org/?p=icinga-irpe.git;a=summary If no

Bug#547092: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#547092: Bug#547092: nrpe ssl security problem

2013-02-07 Thread Michael Friedrich
On 08.02.2013 00:31, Markus Frosch wrote: Just my 2 cents (without any hat on): TLS integration in NRPE was broken from the beginning and more or less by design. The "real" and only security feature is to configure a appropriate allowed_hosts list, which might be enough security for internal ne