Re: A buffer overflow study - generic protections

2002-03-29 Thread Crispin Cowan
Vincent wrote: As computer science students, a friend and I have just ended a study on buffer overflows and the existing protections a Linux system may use against them. This study deals with the various kinds of overflows (heap, stack) to understand how they work and how they may be used to

Re: proftpd bug or not?

2002-03-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Noah Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.03.29.2149 +0100]: No, it is in fact not fixed. We are still vulnerable. I have confirmed this myself with the proftpd packages from security.debian.org. If you don't believe me, try it... i did. and it wasn't vulnerable. i will try again

on potato's proftpd

2002-03-29 Thread martin f krafft
so proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1_i386.deb is buggy. and that's known for over a year, supposedly. i can't NMU yet, so someone please rebuild the package, add the following to the Global context of /etc/proftpd.conf DenyFilter \*.*/ and then NMU it, or Johnie's listening and will do it

Re: DoS in debian (potato) proftpd: 1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1

2002-03-29 Thread martin f krafft
dear bugtraq'ers, i must confess that the information i provided wrt the acclaimed DoS exploit in Debian potato's proftpd package (1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1) was not fully accurate. the package *does in fact contain a buggy daemon* despite having been fixed, according to the changelog: proftpd

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:47:18PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: so proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1_i386.deb is buggy. and that's known for over a year, supposedly. i can't NMU yet, so someone please rebuild the package, add the following to the Global context of /etc/proftpd.conf

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Noah Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.03.29.2332 +0100]: Such a package has existed at http://people.debian.org/~ivo/ for over a year. okay, but noone knows about it. why isn't it on security.debian.org yet??? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)

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Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-29 Thread Ivo Timmermans
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Noah Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.03.29.2332 +0100]: Such a package has existed at http://people.debian.org/~ivo/ for over a year. okay, but noone knows about it. why isn't it on security.debian.org yet??? Beats me... Ivo -- Hey, it

Re: proftpd bug or not?

2002-03-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Noah Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.03.29.2149 +0100]: No, it is in fact not fixed. We are still vulnerable. I have confirmed this myself with the proftpd packages from security.debian.org. If you don't believe me, try it... i did. and it wasn't vulnerable. i will try again

Re: DoS in debian (potato) proftpd: 1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1

2002-03-29 Thread martin f krafft
dear bugtraq'ers, i must confess that the information i provided wrt the acclaimed DoS exploit in Debian potato's proftpd package (1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1) was not fully accurate. the package *does in fact contain a buggy daemon* despite having been fixed, according to the changelog: proftpd

on potato's proftpd

2002-03-29 Thread martin f krafft
so proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1_i386.deb is buggy. and that's known for over a year, supposedly. i can't NMU yet, so someone please rebuild the package, add the following to the Global context of /etc/proftpd.conf DenyFilter \*.*/ and then NMU it, or Johnie's listening and will do it himself.

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:47:18PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: so proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1_i386.deb is buggy. and that's known for over a year, supposedly. i can't NMU yet, so someone please rebuild the package, add the following to the Global context of /etc/proftpd.conf

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-03-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Noah Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.03.29.2332 +0100]: Such a package has existed at http://people.debian.org/~ivo/ for over a year. okay, but noone knows about it. why isn't it on security.debian.org yet??? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \

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