Re: Certification Authorities are recommended to stop using MD5 altogether

2009-01-01 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Micah Anderson wrote: > Does anyone have a legitimate reason to trust any particular Certificate > Authority? Right. Thing is it's not straight forward to remove package ca-certificates. On my systems, some 60 other packages depend on it :( The alternative may be to reconfi

"Certification Authorities are recommended to stop using MD5 altogether"

2008-12-30 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/ Could some skilled person comment on the article? I noticed around 20 certificates distributed with the package ca-certificates have "Signature Algorithm: md5WithRSAEncryption". Reason to worry? Cheers, -- Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

dhcp delivered subnet broadcast address: 255.255.255.255

2005-05-01 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Hi list, I've seen and heard about this on more than one occasion. Now I wonder what's hiding behind it. What could be the point with a dhcp-server throwing out a 255.255.255.255 subnet broadcast address together with a ip-address/subnet mask from which the dammed thing can be easily deducted and

Re: Known vulnerabilities left open in Debian?

2004-03-22 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Giacomo Mulas wrote: [snip] > linuxworld Australia (see > http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1607539824;fp;2;fpid;1) [snip] > if I were in the Debian Security Team I would definitely be pissed off > by something like this, Well... Why should you? The article also pr

Re: Known vulnerabilities left open in Debian?

2004-03-22 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Giacomo Mulas wrote: [snip] > linuxworld Australia (see > http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1607539824;fp;2;fpid;1) [snip] > if I were in the Debian Security Team I would definitely be pissed off > by something like this, Well... Why should you? The article also pr

countermeasure against a vulnerability in CBC ciphersuites

2003-11-05 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Hi there, This is debian stable (woody) openssl_0.9.6c-2.woody.4. I need to find out the folowing. This is from debian's changelog: , | openssl (0.9.6c-2.woody.0) stable-security; urgency=low | | * SECURITY: patch for various overflows (upstream security patch | 0.9.6d->0.9.6e) | | --

countermeasure against a vulnerability in CBC ciphersuites

2003-11-05 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Hi there, This is debian stable (woody) openssl_0.9.6c-2.woody.4. I need to find out the folowing. This is from debian's changelog: , | openssl (0.9.6c-2.woody.0) stable-security; urgency=low | | * SECURITY: patch for various overflows (upstream security patch | 0.9.6d->0.9.6e) | | --

Re: evolution

2003-06-29 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Jon wrote: > > tcp 0 1 192.168.0.1:33933 63.236.73.20:80 SYN_SENT > > 4055/evolution-exec > > And... I'm not sure about this one, but it's probably another item on > the Summary page. # hinfo -n 63.236.73.20 Processing 63.236.73.20 (63.236.73.20) 63.236.73.20 is in selwerd XB

Re: evolution

2003-06-29 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Jon wrote: > > tcp 0 1 192.168.0.1:33933 63.236.73.20:80 SYN_SENT > > 4055/evolution-exec > > And... I'm not sure about this one, but it's probably another item on > the Summary page. # hinfo -n 63.236.73.20 Processing 63.236.73.20 (63.236.73.20) 63.236.73.20 is in selwerd XB

ip allmulti oddity (was: promiscuous mode)

2003-05-24 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Hi, This might be just marginally security related, but here it goes. Got curious about this and looked around. Checked ifconfig and ip (iproute2). , | # ifconfig eth1 | eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:c8:ca:4e:96 | UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 ` Yes, I

Re: Disabling netstat

2003-04-20 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Brian McGroarty wrote: > I'd like to disable netstat and similar programs for my shell > users. Could this be an alternative solution? # dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 700 /bin/netstat Cheers, Cristian

Re: Gnutella? (was Re: TCP port 6352?)

2003-01-09 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > You will see that the listing for many servers/clients in the network are > usually port 6346 [1]. But it seems port 6352 is also used sometimes. That seems to be the case. I found some more info on this page: http://outpostfirewall.c

Re: Gnutella? (was Re: TCP port 6352?)

2003-01-09 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > You will see that the listing for many servers/clients in the network are > usually port 6346 [1]. But it seems port 6352 is also used sometimes. That seems to be the case. I found some more info on this page: http://outpostfirewall.c

Can this be considered a DoS-attack?

2003-01-08 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Using mozilla 1.2.1 (but I don't think the browser matters). Browsed to: http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/linux.html and tried the "Printer-friendly version" link (CAREFUL HERE: don't click on the link and then leave home): http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/phpapps/pfv/pfv

Can this be considered a DoS-attack?

2003-01-08 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Using mozilla 1.2.1 (but I don't think the browser matters). Browsed to: http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/linux.html and tried the "Printer-friendly version" link (CAREFUL HERE: don't click on the link and then leave home): http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/phpapps/pfv/pfv

Re: Updated OPENSSL package for Debian?

2003-01-07 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > Some might feel more comfortable with installing a package from testing > than with modifying version checks in a configure script. But I agree > that I probably should have said that testing, of course, does not have > security sup

Re: Updated OPENSSL package for Debian?

2003-01-07 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > Some might feel more comfortable with installing a package from testing > than with modifying version checks in a configure script. But I agree > that I probably should have said that testing, of course, does not have > security sup

Re: FTP-SSL

2002-12-19 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Daniel Lysfjord wrote: > It seems like FileZilla[1] supports ftp-ssl.. > > [1]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla What about lftp? Depends: ..., libssl0.9.6, ...

Re: FTP-SSL

2002-12-19 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Daniel Lysfjord wrote: > It seems like FileZilla[1] supports ftp-ssl.. > > [1]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla What about lftp? Depends: ..., libssl0.9.6, ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: icmp: type-#69 (catched that bastard)

2002-09-15 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, martin f krafft wrote: [snip] > sorry to spurt into the thread randomly. using any packet generation > tool, i don't think it's quite hard to create an ICMP type 69 packet. > i wouldn't be concerned if i were you. i don't know *anyone* using > type 69... Unless there's some

Re: icmp: type-#69 (catched that bastard)

2002-09-15 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Tim Haynes wrote: > Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > >> How many hops away is the supposed source if you traceroute to it and how > >> does that compare to the 17 the above would imply? > > > > H

Re: icmp: type-#69 (catched that bastard)

2002-09-15 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Tim Haynes wrote: > Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Tim Haynes wrote: > > > >> Could you include a complete `tcpdump -X' on one or two of the packets, > >> maybe make a series of t

Re: icmp: type-#69 (catched that bastard)

2002-09-15 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Tim Haynes wrote: > Could you include a complete `tcpdump -X' on one or two of the packets, > maybe make a series of them available for download in libpcap form so I can > oogle them in ethereal? Catched and oogled in ethereal: , | Frame 308 (174 on wire, 96 captured) |

Re: icmp: type-#69

2002-09-15 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Michal Melewski wrote: [snip] > Once i heard about project of internet worm comunicating through odd ICMP > packets. This seems to be quite strange, but after all this is a good and > relativly discrete communicating channel... Sure. You can even chat over icmp, looks like.

Re: icmp: type-#69

2002-09-15 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Tim Haynes wrote: > Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I noticed (among the more common icmp: echo request) these odd icmp > > types. The external net, my firewall is connected to, is plagued by > > smurf-attacks from vari

icmp: type-#69

2002-09-15 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
I noticed (among the more common icmp: echo request) these odd icmp types. The external net, my firewall is connected to, is plagued by smurf-attacks from various sources. So I have tcpdump watching. Of what I gather, this icmp-type should not exist. Can anyone shed some light on this: , | 11

Re: static sshd

2002-08-27 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Dale Amon wrote: > I'm building a static sshd and am having a bit of > hassle figuring out which configure options are needed > for debian compatibility. , | Since glibc does not support 'int optreset;' functionality | implemented in most BSDes. We have to include our ow

Re: Please help with scp debug output

2002-08-24 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Hello all, I am running Debian Woody on two systems. Could someone help > me understand what is causing the below? scp between the systems is > failing. Loose this output: > TERM environment variable not set. > Linux HOST 2.4.18 #1 Wed Jul 31 15:21:0

Re: Apache Log Files

2002-08-18 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Blars Blarson wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] > >You might want to have a look at this: > > > > http://www.blars.org/hinfo.html > > [snip] > >It doesn't seem to be packaged for Debian, which is a pitty. > > Should I consider this a

Re: Apache Log Files

2002-08-18 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Matthew, On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Matthew Sackman wrote: [snip] > Does anyone know of a simple program that will return info on whois IP > lookup in a set format? You might want to have a look at this: http://www.blars.org/hinfo.html It returns some interesting info in this format: , | Pro

Re: Strange warning

2002-08-17 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Dale Amon wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 12:06:44AM +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Dale Amon wrote: > > > > > Anyone know what this means? Even google draws a blank. > > > > > > tcpspy[29190

Re: Strange warning

2002-08-17 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Dale Amon wrote: > Anyone know what this means? Even google draws a blank. > > tcpspy[29190]: /proc/net/tcp: warning: incomplete line Nothing to worry about. One of the longer storie is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=115613 Cheers, Cristian

Re: Question on the safety sharing NFS with untrusted machines.

2002-08-03 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Michelle Konzack wrote: > there is a Debian-Package ssl-nfs (or secure-nfs) in the Mirror... > It is much more save the all other trics with your Networks. And what mirror would that be? Any pointers? Cheers, Cristian

Re: Secure/hardened/minimal Debian (or "Why is the base system the way it is?")

2002-05-20 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Hubert Chan wrote: > You may also want to check out partimage. There's even a Debian package > for it. Although it doesn't seem to support ext3 either, at least > according to the package description. But it supports reiserfs. /C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Secure/hardened/minimal Debian (or "Why is the base system the way it is?")

2002-05-20 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Mon, 20 May 2002, danilo lujambio wrote: > sorry my english is not good . > > I suggest that you can use mondo and mindi (freshmeat.net) to make images Mondo and mindi are packaged and available in both woody and sid. /C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Secure/hardened/minimal Debian (or "Why is the base system theway it is?")

2002-05-20 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Hubert Chan wrote: > You may also want to check out partimage. There's even a Debian package > for it. Although it doesn't seem to support ext3 either, at least > according to the package description. But it supports reiserfs. /C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Secure/hardened/minimal Debian (or "Why is the base system theway it is?")

2002-05-20 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Mon, 20 May 2002, danilo lujambio wrote: > sorry my english is not good . > > I suggest that you can use mondo and mindi (freshmeat.net) to make images Mondo and mindi are packaged and available in both woody and sid. /C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Iptables config

2002-04-21 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Jussi Ekholm wrote: [snip] > Thank you, I'll take a look at them. But, I'd still need some help > concerning the DROP chain -- I've read the Packet-filtering-HOWTO, > and eyed all related HOWTOs from LDP (actually, the Debian package > doc-linux-html), but *still* I'm unable

Re: Webserver questions: using samba, avoiding cleartext passwords, co-existing with Windows

2002-04-21 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Tom Dominico wrote: [snip] > 3) Do none of the above and use an SCP client to manually transfer > things back and forth when necessary. Yes, but not manually. Take a look at this: http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/ Cheers, Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Iptables config

2002-04-21 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Jussi Ekholm wrote: [snip] > Thank you, I'll take a look at them. But, I'd still need some help > concerning the DROP chain -- I've read the Packet-filtering-HOWTO, > and eyed all related HOWTOs from LDP (actually, the Debian package > doc-linux-html), but *still* I'm unable

Re: Webserver questions: using samba, avoiding cleartext passwords,co-existing with Windows

2002-04-21 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Tom Dominico wrote: [snip] > 3) Do none of the above and use an SCP client to manually transfer > things back and forth when necessary. Yes, but not manually. Take a look at this: http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/ Cheers, Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Ssh and others compiled with tcpwrappers (Re: ssh without reverse DNS lookup)

2002-03-11 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:12:58PM +0100, Javier Coso Gutierrez wrote: > > You have in the "/etc/hosts.deny" this: > > ALL:PARANOID > > That's exactly what I was thinking about.. many programs in > Debian are now compiled with the

Re: Ssh and others compiled with tcpwrappers (Re: ssh without reverseDNS lookup)

2002-03-11 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:12:58PM +0100, Javier Coso Gutierrez wrote: > > You have in the "/etc/hosts.deny" this: > > ALL:PARANOID > > That's exactly what I was thinking about.. many programs in > Debian are now compiled with the

Re: I want to test my firewall from the outside

2002-02-15 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > Greetings, > > Yes, I would like to do that. > Any good tools you folks would recommand? Thanks to everyone. You were most helpful ;-) Cheers, Cristian

Re: I want to test my firewall from the outside

2002-02-15 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > Greetings, > > Yes, I would like to do that. > Any good tools you folks would recommand? Thanks to everyone. You were most helpful ;-) Cheers, Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

I want to test my firewall from the outside

2002-02-14 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Greetings, Yes, I would like to do that. Any good tools you folks would recommand? Cheers, Cristian

I want to test my firewall from the outside

2002-02-14 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Greetings, Yes, I would like to do that. Any good tools you folks would recommand? Cheers, Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-11 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Here is another one who bother to check the logs :) Cheers, Cristian On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, JonesMB wrote: > >> Neato. That's 3 people in total who think it's a good idea.. :/ > > > >It's probably the 3 people in total who bother to check the logs... > > make that 4. I always have an xterm with a

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-11 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Here is another one who bother to check the logs :) Cheers, Cristian On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, JonesMB wrote: > >> Neato. That's 3 people in total who think it's a good idea.. :/ > > > >It's probably the 3 people in total who bother to check the logs... > > make that 4. I always have an xterm with

Re: su vulnerability

2000-10-09 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: [snip] > i am a bit curious about the recent traceroute bug, (traceroute -g 1 > -g 1 segfaults) pretty much every other major dist has released an > advisory and update for this, but debian appears not to have (unless i > missed it). a fixed traceroute pac

Re: su vulnerability

2000-10-09 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: [snip] > i am a bit curious about the recent traceroute bug, (traceroute -g 1 > -g 1 segfaults) pretty much every other major dist has released an > advisory and update for this, but debian appears not to have (unless i > missed it). a fixed traceroute pa