New security packages available

2001-08-26 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña PD: Packages are available at http://www.dat.etsit.upm.es/~jfs/debian/ENVIAR and should (hopefully) be currently available in Debian too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What about doing security updates automatically?

2001-09-06 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:38:43AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: I (or I'd be sure my fellow sysadmin) would appreciate a bit more automation. Maybe really the best thing would be to prepare everything needed for an upgrade (i.e. receive the security announcement, parse it, see if it

Replacement for common services (was Re: Is ident secure?)

2001-09-06 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:57:55PM -0400, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: It sounds like we have a similar problem. I read all this stuff, If you don't know what it is, you don't need it. and If you don't need it, shut it down. One of the things I read said to shut off lpd. I know there have been

Re: What about doing security updates automatically?

2001-09-07 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
In unstable, check http://packages.debian.org/tiger Javi On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:40:39PM +0200, Gerhard Kroder wrote: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Currently, the patched tiger (an old Unix security tool) available in Debian which package? not at testing

Re: What about doing security updates automatically?

2001-09-07 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:16:17PM +0200, Gerhard Kroder wrote: Installed an run it and wondered about lots of log messages afterwards... Will take some time to check them all. Ar the checks made by tiger deb-policy compliant? Tiger does not check deb-policy, it's a (rather old)

Re: Listening Ports

2001-09-12 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:22:49AM +0200, Alexander Reelsen wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:31:57PM -0400, hpknight wrote: inetd also has this feature (not very well documented). use service@ip in inetd.conf in order to use that feature. xinetd is nicer, anyway :-) I went on an

Re: Need Help with the Debian Securing Manual (contributions accepted)

2001-09-23 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:31:24PM -0700, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ on this server. ?? Works fine for me, just tried it. Are you sure is not a problem with your proxy? Javi -- To

Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I am looking into the security policies outlined for package building, in order to include some notes regarding them in the section How does Debian handle security in the Securing Debian Manual (http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp) For example, I have been recently asked if a

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:31:38PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: What does security policies for building a debian package exactly have to do with securing a debian box? System administrator reading this document will be interested in tips and howtos on improving the security on the boxes,

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:17:13PM +0200, Patrice Neff wrote: I believe this would not be reasonable for the Debian distribution, but you could create a customized and secure Debian version where you do a source code audit before accepting any package. Or maybe it could be done with another

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:28:02PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: FreeBSD does it for their ports tree. In fact, this has been a matter of controversy, as the FreeBSD team issues a huge number of security advisories for software that really has nothing to do with FreeBSD. This has caused

[off-topic?] Chrooting ssh/telnet users?

2001-10-26 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I have been asked for this and I was trying to figure out how to do it (would document it later on in the Securing-Debian-Manual). So please, excuse me if you feel this is off-topic. The problem is, how can an admin restrict remote access from a given user (through telnet and/or sshd) in order

Re: [off-topic?] Chrooting ssh/telnet users?

2001-10-27 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:25:28PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: That's a wrong assumption. At least RedHat contains a pam_chroot.so module which can be used in connection with the latest ssh to limit a user into a chroot. I'm just wondering if that module is packaged already for debian or

Re: [off-topic?] Chrooting ssh/telnet users?

2001-10-27 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I would be interested only in the chroot patch. Is there any reason you have not contributed it to openssh? Do you want me to do it? Best regards Javi On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:24:13PM +0300, Ivan Dimitrov wrote: recently i've worked on a small patch for openssh that

Re: [off-topic?] Chrooting ssh/telnet users?

2001-10-27 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:35:14PM +0100, Tim Haynes wrote: Rishi L Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the only way to accomplish a chroot IS to include all the files in the jail that the user needs. [snip] Yes. Somehow, if you're going to run something, it needs to be in the jail.

Re: [off-topic?] Chrooting ssh/telnet users?

2001-10-28 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
It seems pam_chroot is available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/pre/modules/ I will try and take a look at it... Javi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian packages signed?

2001-11-21 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I had recently a discussion regarding Debian package signing and automaticly downloading checking packages signatures (i.e. using debsig-verify) However, I see now that the default /etc/dpkg/dpkg.conf ships with no-debsig by default and users are not currently (correct me if it does) checking

Re: Need Help with the Debian Securing Manual (contributions accepted)

2001-10-07 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I have received some very good contributions from individuals after my call for help (which appeared also on the DWN :) After the inclusion of those and writting some new sections (regarding DNS limiting, online/offline references, a new checklist appendix, talks on chroot and some other

Re: lprng

2001-12-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:20:43PM +0200, Juha Jäykkä wrote: Most false positives are easily dismissed by knowing your setup which nessus does not. There are a couple of concering cases, though: This case of lprng: nessus only says it detects an lprng daemon, but NOT that it cannot tell the

Conference today at UMEET regarding Debian GNU/Linux security

2001-12-13 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Well, I couldn't run away this year either... I'm giving out a Lecture at UMEET 2001 today (thursday 19:00 CET) regarding Debian GNU/Linux security. If anyone is interested in attending/helping go to irc.uninet.edu (#redes). I will be also at #debian-devel today. Regards Javi

Following security issues found upstream

2001-12-13 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
How do the Debian Security team currently follow the vulnerabilities posted upstream? I guess that's easy when the upstream maintainer (or the one that found the bug) tells Debian's team before posting. But what if somebody posts in bugtraq a security issue around a software available at

Re: Following security issues found upstream

2001-12-13 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:41:38PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: I guess a public database could be useful both for We have a private database (well, a status-file in which we keep track of things). A public database can't be used since

[report] A look at the time Debian takes to fix a security vulnerability

2001-12-14 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
As I said yesterday I wanted to prepare an answer to the question How much time does it take for Debian to fix a given bug?. I have made some analysis regarding vulnerabilities detected and posted in bugtraq and those sent as DSAs. It has taken some more time than expected since the DSAs

Re: [report] A look at the time Debian takes to fix a security vulnerability

2001-12-14 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
sOn Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:45:41PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: A note for the Security Team: please add a new tag to the DSA's data: define-tag bid and define-tag cve that would make it easier to Half the time we can't do that because

Re: Apt-get is insecure

2001-12-14 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:59:47AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: From what I know, this will be supported scheme in the next release. Well, afaik base is frozen and the current released version of apt doesn't do that yet.. Of course, I meant next to woody, *not* woody...

Re: Exim mail

2001-12-17 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 06:22:03PM -0600, Daniel Rychlik wrote: How do I stop this from happening. Apparently my bud telented to port 25 and somehow sent mail from my root account. Any suggestions, white papers or links? Id would like to block the telnet application all together, but I

Asking for documentation help (Re: IPSec questions...)

2002-01-14 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I was wondering... could someone write a How to build VPN's in Debian small documentation for inclusion in the Debian Security HOWTO (http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp) it could make for a nice chapter in there. Topics to comment about: - FreeSwan - CIPE -

Re: Debian security being trashed in Linux Today comments

2002-01-14 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:15:16PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Adam Warner wrote: Someone with better knowledge of all the facts might want to comment on the claim that Debian is always the last to fix security holes and the tag team follow up I've been fighting for months

Re: Debian security being trashed in Linux Today comments

2002-01-14 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:16:46PM +0100, Lupe Christoph wrote: I hope you provide a cleaned-up version. .../msg00257.html is full of binary crap. And the link .../bin0.bin could be stored as the PNG file it is supposed to be. The way it is now, I get a MIME-type of

Re: Debian security being trashed in Linux Today comments

2002-01-15 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 09:23:20AM +0100, Lupe Christoph wrote: On Monday, 2002-01-14 at 23:20:21 -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:25:11PM -0500, Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote: I recompressed it as a real PNG, and attached it to this mail, for your viewing pleasure :) PNG

Re: Asking for documentation help (Re: IPSec questions...)

2002-01-15 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:52:59AM -0700, Stefan Srdic wrote: I don't have any pratical experience with FreeSWAN at all, however, I have statically compiled BIND 9 and placed it in a chroot jail on Debian. I wonder if it would hard to packge a chroot'ed setup of BIND9 once it completely

Re: default security

2002-01-15 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:21:00AM +0100, Tarjei wrote: I recall there being discussion a while back about packaging chroot bind. I don't know whether or not anything came of it at all. There is Debian being what it is, are there any reasons why the debian bind package should not be

Re: Asking for documentation help (Re: IPSec questions...)

2002-01-15 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
That would be great. I will accept patches anytime. Please don't forget about writting it! (I will keep this mail, just as a reminder :) Javi On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:46:48AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: I'd happily volunteer to write the whole chapter, but I don't

Re: Debian security being trashed in Linux Today comments

2002-01-16 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Right. It should be A report published Fixed. Thanks Javi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help with Firewall section in the Debian Security Manual

2002-01-16 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
?) and not reproduce it (terrible waste of time and difficult to maintain up to date). Anyone? Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with Firewall section in the Debian Security Manual

2002-01-16 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:19:31PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: got ya. i'll think about it. deadlines? None really. However, less than a month would be nice :) Javi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Detecting break-ins

2002-01-16 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:14:38AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Yotam Rubin wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 09:04:07PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: Hi, Recently I've installed some IP logging deamons (snort, ippl along with logcheck) and I was amazed

Re: Help with Firewall section in the Debian Security Manual

2002-01-18 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:29:59PM -0600, Jor-el wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Both should point to other sites regarding general info (what a firewall is? what does netfilter do?) and not reproduce it (terrible waste of time and difficult to maintain

Re: Securing bind..

2002-01-28 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:44:43AM +0100, Tarjei wrote: Ok, here's my (standard) suggestion: Make a system of anotations to the manual. Thous, it's possible to just cut-n-paste the different mails into the manual and thus make something that different people can contribute to without

Re: Securing bind..

2002-01-28 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:10:07AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya several ways to harden dns... depending on level fo paranoia?? http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Harden/server.gwif.html#DNS Notes are fine, and I'm already aware of linux-sec.net. I'm looking, however, into something more

Re: These 'roots' are bugging me.

2002-02-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:00:13PM +0100, Gergely Trifonov wrote: (...) is your friend: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Chroot-BIND8-HOWTO.html this document is really good, but some additional work needs to be done to get the thing work on debian. Could you elaborate a little bit

Re: /etc/passwd accounts

2002-02-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:03:08AM -0700, Stefan Srdic wrote: Take a look at the Debian Policy Manual, they might discribe system accounts in there. AFAIK it does, and so does the Debian Security HOWTO (see www.debian.org/doc/ddp). This is, a matter of fact in the FAQ section.

Re: [d-security] Re: SECURITY HOLE in MySQL module in PHP

2002-02-18 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:31:23PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:26:27PM +0100, Ralf Dreibrodt wrote: Maybe debian developers should make a quick and dirty fix for this, because (as I can understand) php developers already knows about this hole and do still

Re: I want to test my firewall from the outside

2002-02-18 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:55:55AM -0500, Moses Moore wrote: Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: Yes, I would like to do that. Any good tools you folks would recommand? 'apt-cache search attack' The Debian security HOWTO outlines some of the tools available in Debian see

Re: I want to test my firewall from the outside

2002-02-19 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:09:09PM +0100, Thomas Seyrat wrote: And LibWhisker too, maybe (libwhisker-perl in Debian). Nikto's coming soon. Great, keep me informed so I update the HOWTO. About attacks and intrusion detection, idswakeup is a false-positive generator to

Re: default security

2002-03-07 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:51:32PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Debian could provide, with only some effort from package maintainers versions of daemons chrooted to given environments. This however, might break Policy (IMHO). how would it break policy? (sorry, catching up with

Re: best way to create pop only accounts

2002-03-11 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:21:45AM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: Hi, Which is the best way to create a POP only account? just change the last field in /etc/passwd to /bin/false? No. My 2 cents (of Euro): use a directory for POP authentication using the appropiate PAM modules,

Re: IP chains logs to console

2002-03-13 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:31:00AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) But I'm (currently) a hobbyist, not an admin. Am I off-base here? If you feel it's a bug file it, if the developer thinks it isn't you can discuss this based on the bug report. Javi -- To

Re: disable RPC

2002-04-26 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:26:16AM -0400, Andrew Kaplan wrote: How do I disable RPC. I know the scripts can be removed from init.d But I know there's a command similar to apt-get remove ??? or something similar. That removes is completely. Read

Re: Lost root password!!

2002-04-26 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 01:23:02AM +0200, Luis Gómez Miralles wrote: Hi, Simple. Do the init=/bin/sh trick. When you're booted, mount / -o remount,rw Then edit /etc/passwd and add this to /etc/passwd: root2::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash This should do the trick :) If you want more

Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linux kernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Culd someone explain why is there a root shell prompt for the Linux kernel: Press ENTER to obtain a shell (waits 5 seconds) This seems something related to the cramfs filesystem (ramdisk) but I'm not knowledgeable about it. I would like: 1.- an explanation on why this is

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linux kernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:30:58PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2.- someone to step up an explain how to disable this behavior Dont look at it. Or dont install a system. Funny. However, the kernel used by the installation

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linux kernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 05:20:14PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: (whatever this is for). I was quite surprised when I saw this but a user has just mailed me asking for an answer on why does Debian woody ships Dito. Show me a system with such problem after a fresh installation. I

Re: A Linux version of system and network monitoring?

2002-04-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:26:18PM -0600, Crawford Rainwater wrote: Folks, Does anyone know of a Linux based system and network monitoring program out there? Similar to Tivoli or HP OpenView, preferably under GPL and free? If so, links and such would be great. I have been

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linux kernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 06:05:27PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 05:20:14PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: (whatever this is for). I was quite surprised when I saw this but a user has just mailed me asking for an answer on why does Debian woody ships

Pam_chroot not available for Debian

2002-05-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Ok guys, I promised back in october (after a thread regarding chrooting users that I started) to take a look at PAM_chroot (currently provided by RedHat's Linux-PAM). I was up til 4 am yesterday and finally made it: libpam-chroot-0.6-1_i386.deb - available at

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linux kernel boots?

2002-05-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 07:31:02PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:23:06PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: It is there as part of the installer to make like easier for those wishing to do things that the installer does not support by default. It has nothing whatsoever

Re: Fixing file system privileges

2002-05-13 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 08:16:28AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.05.11.0155 +0200]: nope, purge is a possible status too. since when? fishbowl:~ dpkg --get-selections | grep purge fishbowl:~ $ dpkg --get-selections * |grep purge |wc

Re: snort not recognizing dns server correctly

2002-05-16 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:27:53AM -0700, Jeff wrote: dafr, 2002-May-03 10:52 -0700: Jeff, I had this problem initially as well when I reconfigured snort, until I restarted the service. Quite obvious in retrospect, but when I missed it initially, I could see others doing the same.

Re: Strange opened ports.

2002-06-04 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:55:18PM -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote: At 10:43 PM +0200 6/3/02, Guido Hennecke wrote: netstat -an | grep port That command will only tell him yup, it's LISTENING, but won't tell him WHAT is listening on that port. It does with the -p switch: $ netstat -apn

Re: ot? apache directory listing mysteries

2002-09-18 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:33:25AM +0700, Jean Christophe ANDRÃ? wrote: Did you take a look at the Referer of those access? It might help you to track it down... That's just might be how they get them in the first place. If you buddy downloaded the file and then contacted google.com there

Re: debian fixes that make it back upstream?

2002-09-20 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:11:38AM -0500, Hunter Peress wrote: Does anyone have data on how many fixes make it back upstream? Do you mean Debian security fixes? These are probably (always?) sent upstream. However, you can see the DSAs and check whether there are any references to an

Re: How reliable is debsums?

2002-09-26 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:45:56AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Sounds nice. I tried tiger for a short time, but received far too many notifications about things which were not wrong, for Debian or for many other systems. Yes, it needs some improvement yet. Did you try the notify

Re: export problems on security updates?

2002-10-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
What might concern you is Spanish law regarding the use/import of cryptography. Which law might that be? Last I checked there was none. Javi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AW: export problems on security updates?

2002-10-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
BTW, What ever happened to the EU urging citizens to use cryptography because of ECHELON? I've doing some research... mainly on www.europa.eu.int. Maybe this enligtens you: http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/eif/InternetPoliciesSite/Crime/PublicHearingPresentations/AOL.html Even there is some debate

Re: a nessus developpers joke?

2002-10-14 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 02:48:15PM +0200, WebMaster wrote: hi all, is there a monster bug in nessus for woody? i scaned a woody server from 2 differents hosts (woody server also) (...) it detected a trinoo for linux The 'trinoo' test in Nessus is (was?) flawed and led to a

Named daemon and port 32770? (and port 32985 on restart)

2002-10-15 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Consider this: $ sudo lsof -ni |grep named named 3267 root4u IPv4 512 UDP *:32770 named 3267 root 20u IPv4 508 UDP 127.0.0.1:domain named 3267 root 21u IPv4 509 TCP 127.0.0.1:domain (LISTEN) named 3267 root 22u IPv4

Re: Named daemon and port 32770? (and port 32985 on restart)

2002-10-15 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:50:10AM +0200, Christian Schuerer-Waldheim wrote: Hi! Any ideas on why there is a single UDP port open? My configuration is pretty simple, no controls configured for the name server and a 'listen-on port 53' statement in the config file As I can

Re: Vulnerabilities found by Nessus

2002-10-15 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:33:38PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Hi everybody! Now, I have finally configured all the security features that I wanted, (...) Well, I don't know if I should be alarmed, I guess the whole reason for running nessus is to be alarmed, so I am... :-) And it

Re: Vulnerabilities found by Nessus

2002-10-15 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
jOn Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:11:51PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 13:59, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Try to reproduce this behavior. You can launch the attacks manually using 'nasl name-of-the-script' and trace the mail server to see

Re: ssh banner

2002-10-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I'm starting to get bored of pople replying nonsense without tesint it themselves. On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:19:01PM +0200, Vasarhelyi asd Daniel wrote: issue(5) might help some of you about pre-login banner and daemon(s) banner version. Banner gets diplayed _after_ successful

Re: ssh banner

2002-10-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:08:52AM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 at 03:50:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't it done by default ? You would have to ask the maintainer... Oh! Better: file a bug. No! Wait! It's already done [1] :-|

Re: [OT] secure, minimal Debian installation for linux-based thin clients?

2002-10-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: There is obviously more than one solution here, so I'm looking for recommendations. We care about security; we don't want to run any services we don't need, etc. Reliability is key, so your uncle's friend's

Re: Securing Apache: vserver or chroot ?

2002-10-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 01:29:40PM +0200, Alexander Neumann wrote: Hi Jesus, Jesus Climent wrote: * Chroot The linux system call to jail a subtree. Has to be created and maintained manually. You can try 'jailtool', if you like: $ apt-cache show jailtool [...] Funny

Re: tiger templates

2002-10-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:22:16PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: Michael == Michael West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Michael I would like to ignore this, so I copy the file to: Michael /etc/tiger/check_accounts.template so that it will no longer be Michael reported. But it is still

Re: Security problem with slapd/slurpd?

2002-10-17 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:08:11AM +0200, Massimiliano Mirra wrote: Am I missing something or should a bug be filed? I would say a bug needs to be fixed (based on your account of the issue :) Let the maintainer/security team, take a further look into this.. Javi -- To

Re: tiger reporting thousands of files with undefined groups ownership

2002-11-04 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:18:03PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not

Re: Bind 4 8 issues

2002-11-13 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:31:48AM -0500, Roger Ward wrote: It is my understanding all of these vulnerabilities exist in the *stock* version of Bind 8.3.3-REL from ISC. Have any of these issues been addressed in the current version? I can't speak for the security team (since I'm not

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-06 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:18:52AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: If so, are there any special steps required to integrate such a download into our Debian Woody system ? Yes. See below. Alternatively, I note there are later signature packages in testing and unstable - can we use those

Re: Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ?

2002-12-09 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:32:21AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:46:01AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: I'd suggest maybe a note about V1.8.4 being useless should be added to http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/snort.html, along with some advice about getting signature

Re: init.d startup sequence for shorewall

2002-12-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:39:35PM -0800, Yogesh Sharma wrote: In my opinion shorewall must be started as soon as network is up. What does list sugguests ? Is this a security problem ? Yes this is a security issue, if you take iptables, for example, it is run in S10. Any firewalling script

Re: init.d startup sequence for shorewall

2002-12-13 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:18:17PM -0500, Raymond Wood wrote: There have been several responses to Yogesh's question, but none of them provide a clear and straightforward answer. Ok. Let me try again: this is a security risk. A gateway firewall _needs_ to be setup the following way: 0.-

Re: init.d startup sequence for shorewall

2002-12-13 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:17:09PM +0200, Pavel Minev Penev wrote: /etc/network/interfaces pre-up I know you can do it there. Unfortunately, firewall packages in debian (even ones I have packaged) do not do this properyl (yet). Regards Javi

Re: Dedicated Firewall + snmpd smux 199/tcp

2002-12-14 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:27:48PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: Hello all! I'm in the process of setting up a dedicated firewall for my home network. It only runs four services: smtp, snmp, ssh and fwlogwatch. (...) but snmpd still listens on port 199/tcp (smux) on my internet IP. (...)

Re: Need an advise about isolating a host in the DMZ

2002-12-18 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:42:16AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi (...) I thought about 2 solutions so far: 1. putting iptables on all the other computers in the DMZ. 2. connecting this host to another VLAN and set this configuration on the switch (I have to

Re: Putting Apache, PHP, Tomcat and CGI in a jail

2003-01-04 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:00:45PM +0200, Martynas Domarkas wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to use makejail... it does not work very good. Could you elaborate more on this? I would like to know which issues have you come up with. Also, you might want to take a loot at the

Gnutella? (was Re: TCP port 6352?)

2003-01-08 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:19:17PM -0800, Josh Carroll wrote: Having failed to find any information about TCP port 6352 via google or /etc/services, I figured I'd ask here. I'm seeing an awful lot of dropped packets on this port recently, and I'm curious if anyone else has seen this. If so,

Re: Firewall testing

2003-02-06 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:56:42AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:14:50AM -0500, merk0020 wrote: Hello I am about to make the Proxy/Firewall on your www.aboutdebian.com web site. I was wondering how to go about testing it when finished. I have multiple computers

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-13 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:59:26PM +, gabe wrote: (...) installation / configuration goes wrong. Most importantly there's no deb package for Nagios which makes me not wanna use it in the first place. Well... are you sure about that?

Nessus 2.0.0 packages available

2003-02-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
For those of you who are not aware of it: Nessus 2.0.0 has been released just today [1]. I've bugged Joy about this (Bug# 182411) but in order to make his (and my) life easier I've made new 2.0.0 packages for Nessus (i386 only). Just wanted to drop a note here in case anybody else wants to test

Re: Nessus 2.0.0 packages available

2003-02-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:56:48PM +0100, Luis Gomez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Great, but how about nessus-plugins? Your nessusd depends on nessus-plugins = 1.3 , and Sarge provides nessus-plugins 1.0.something, I think, so nessusd won't install. Yep.

Re: Nessus 2.0.0 packages available

2003-03-06 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:17:07AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: Hi jfs, Hi there. What's the relationship between these nessus 2.0 packages and the nessus 2.0.1 packages[1] of Josip Rodin at the experimental release? These packages are not Josip's :-) (the packages page is

Re: Integrity of Debian packages

2003-03-07 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:33:15AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: Hi, One of my friends sent me this URL, it's an oldie, and the topic in general has been discussed before, but this article certainly does raise some concerns. Send them this url:

Re: package signing [on topic version, and maybe keep it that way]

2003-03-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 04:15:54AM -0800, Adam Lydick wrote: Before the previous thread turned all that useful energy into waste heat, the author raised an interesting point: You obviously did not read the thread. What support do .debs have for package signing right now? RTFM AGAIN:

Re: Is this an obsolete tiger file?

2003-03-23 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:41:44AM +, Dale Amon wrote: chkrootkit finds this file: Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while... /usr/lib/tiger/bin/.bintype which appears to be quite old. Is this just a leftover from a long ago tiger? It only contains Linux 2.2.17

Re: ip allmulti oddity (was: promiscuous mode)

2003-05-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 04:07:18PM +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: Hi, (...) This is the sid distributed package: , | Package: iproute | Maintainer: Juan Cespedes [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Version: 20010824-9 ` (...) Does anyone know of any particular reason why the iproute

Re: Kernel Security Fixes

2003-06-12 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:18:59AM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: Hi, just got an announcement from the mandrake security list. Could please someone of the people with a deeper knowledge explain, if the mentioned issues are addressed in one of the stock debian kernels or if I have to get the

Re: OT: An Idea for an IDS

2003-07-03 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:42:05PM +0200, Lucio wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (..) Project Descriptive Name: Astu mdids Project UNIX Name: astu Project Description: Multiplatform distributed intrusion detection system You are aware, of course, that you are

Re: honeyd and libdnet

2003-08-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:41:01PM +0200, Thomas Bechtold wrote: Hi, I want to install honeyd on my Debian-Box for testing. honeyd[1] isn't in the Package-tree from Debian so i have to compile it by hand. honeyd needs the 'libdnet'-package[2] to work. Sorry, not true. Check

Re: honeyd and libdnet

2003-08-01 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:41:01PM +0200, Thomas Bechtold wrote: Hi, I want to install honeyd on my Debian-Box for testing. honeyd[1] isn't in the Package-tree from Debian so i have to compile it by hand. honeyd needs the 'libdnet'-package[2] to work. Sorry, I forgot to reply to the last

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