Re: Recent updates

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Felipe Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080218 10:01]: Well, a rogue hacker would need to be quite skilled to add some kind of bad package. Let's assume he has created a bad package and got control over a mirror How about a simpler attack vector: compromise a devel account, and

Re: Recent updates

2008-02-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Jim Popovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080217 06:46]: I haven't seen any other news about this, I show 7 pending updates for which no DSA or notices have gone out. Given that d.o servers have been hacked in the past, are these updates valid and where can I find official info about them?

Re: Recent updates

2008-02-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Jim Popovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080217 21:12]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2008/msg0.html One additional thing that is not clear to me is that I see pending updates for libc6 and libc6-dev that are NOT mentioned in that announcement. They are

Re: Recent updates

2008-02-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Jim Popovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080217 23:42]: [..] So in general we first push upgrade to the mirrors, and then sent out announcements. That does make good sense, for the masses (of which I am one) I suppose. In general it does; and under normal circumstances we try to send out the

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050130 17:45]: Michelle, can You cite the Message-Id's and/or URLs to the archive, please? Unfortunatly not (my postgresql is curently down) but I think, it was between April and June last year. Maybe after the last BUGfix in 2.4.18 Michelle,

[OT] tales (was: woody kernel image)

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050130 20:29]: how does it come, that every time, you're telling such a story and are requested for some proof, one of your services is down, you cite completly unrelated URLs or you don't answer at all? Why not go to http://lists.debian.org/ and

Re: [OT] tales (was: woody kernel image)

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Jan Lühr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050130 22:13]: Don't take it down personal. Jugding about DSA's I've seen, there is currently _no_ security-support for 2.4.18. I didn't made any statement about security support of 2.4.18. All I said was, that MK can't proof her own statement, that I can't a

Re: woody kernel image

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Paul Hink [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050130 21:57]: They told, there are too much kernels to maintain and droped 2.4.(18-22) They sugested to use one of the Backports. And of course this is nothing to inform the ordinary users about, is it? Just to make sure that there are no

Re: security.debian.org is down ?

2004-02-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Hideki Yamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040201 15:45]: Does anyone know about if security.debian.org is down or not? I cannot get .debs from it, and ping to it with no reply. Citing Joey in the german irc-channel #debian.de: 14:53 Joey[tm] Weder noch, war einfach nicht mehr da, als wir dran

Re: Curriculum

2003-08-10 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Samuele Giovanni Tonon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030808 15:09]: What the h.ll does this mean? Apparently some moron tries to find a job through SPAMming. maybe he wants a job inside debian. we must redirect him to http://nm.debian.org :-) So he can redesign it in flash? Yours sincerely

Re: Curriculum

2003-08-08 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Samuele Giovanni Tonon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030808 15:09]: What the h.ll does this mean? Apparently some moron tries to find a job through SPAMming. maybe he wants a job inside debian. we must redirect him to http://nm.debian.org :-) So he can redesign it in flash? Yours sincerely

Re: request to german speaking users

2003-07-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Christian Kujau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030701 14:48]: Please get the docbook formatted code and do a revision. Then just do a diff and sent the output. hm, ok, i'll try. It's quite easy: Get the sgml source; the format is nearly self explaining, and quite uninteressting, since you just need

Re: request to german speaking users

2003-07-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Christian Kujau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030629 22:32]: as others suggested too, the reading should be shared to a group of readers. I started to collect the REVIEW-Status in a seperate file, avaible at: http://www.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~schmehl/securing-debian/REVIEW-STATUS Since I have been and

Re: request to german speaking users

2003-07-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
I'll like to thank all of you, who offered their help, correcting and updating this howto. I'm sorry, if I wasn't able to answer your mail, yet. Thanks for your patience, I'll do so, as fast as I can, but I'm a little busy these days. Thank you very much, Alexander pgp0.pgp

Re: request to german speaking users

2003-07-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Christian Kujau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030701 14:48]: Please get the docbook formatted code and do a revision. Then just do a diff and sent the output. hm, ok, i'll try. It's quite easy: Get the sgml source; the format is nearly self explaining, and quite uninteressting, since you just need

Re: request to german speaking users

2003-07-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Christian Kujau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030629 22:32]: as others suggested too, the reading should be shared to a group of readers. I started to collect the REVIEW-Status in a seperate file, avaible at: http://www.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~schmehl/securing-debian/REVIEW-STATUS Since I have been and

Re: request to german speaking users

2003-07-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
I'll like to thank all of you, who offered their help, correcting and updating this howto. I'm sorry, if I wasn't able to answer your mail, yet. Thanks for your patience, I'll do so, as fast as I can, but I'm a little busy these days. Thank you very much, Alexander pgpiRStvzCsph.pgp

request to german speaking users

2003-06-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Good morning, I just finished the translation of the security howto to german, but some parts are very ugly hacked. It would be very nice, if some of you would review my translation (or at least small parts of it), and send me some patches. You can find the latest version of it at

request to german speaking users

2003-06-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Good morning, I just finished the translation of the security howto to german, but some parts are very ugly hacked. It would be very nice, if some of you would review my translation (or at least small parts of it), and send me some patches. You can find the latest version of it at

Re: OpenSSH and debian?

2003-05-06 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Diederik de Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030506 17:47]: Today I was surfing on SecurityFocus, and saw that there was a hole in OpenSSH (http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7482/info/). Debian Potato uses OpenSSH 3.1 p1, which seems to be exploitable. I think you might be interessted in:

Re: ptrace patch for vanilla kernel 2.4.20

2003-04-22 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Konstantin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030422 23:03]: can anyone post the patch for the 2.4.20-kernel (from kernel.org) or give me an adress I can leech it from. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.2/0226.html http://sinuspl.net/ptrace/ cu Alex -- PGP key on demand, mailto:[EMAIL