Re: about bash and Debian Lenny

2014-10-06 Thread Simon Valiquette
and links2 on Debian stable seems to work fine. As stated, it is probably an issue related with Content-Encoding: gzip or a user mistake. If it can be reproduced, it should probably be talked about on the links2 BTS page instead of here. In any case, bash_3.2-4+deb5u1.dsc is fine AFAIK. Simon

Re: RSA/DSA

2011-11-29 Thread Simon Valiquette
any problem. If you want to be sure, you can increase the verbosity of OpenSSH and check in the logs if any connection ever used something else than RSA. If after few months no host ever used DSA, you'll know you probably can disable it completely. Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Recent libssl update.

2011-11-13 Thread Simon Valiquette
it if you want to be sure it use the new version of the library. I hope that makes thing clearer. Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ec0b8ff

Re: how to send IP packets by myself

2009-09-22 Thread Simon Valiquette
tantan un jour écrivit: Hello, to know someone from using a packet generator? tcpreplay allow you to send specific packets from a file, including invalid ones AFAIK. Since you can alter the packets, it can be useful for testing the application when receiving bad data like a string that is

Re: PGP key to use to contact the Security Team

2009-01-07 Thread Simon Valiquette
Joey Schulze un jour écrivit: Simon Valiquette wrote: In the Securing Debian Manual, the key id to use to send an encrypted email to the security team is 363CCD95, but on the following link, it is F2E861A3 that is listed instead. http://www.debian.org/security/faq.en.html#contact Maybe

Re: apt-get not upgrading kernel

2008-09-12 Thread Simon Valiquette
place. Hopefully, the security team will eventually release an update for the other kernel. If you can't wait, you can try to manualy patch your kernel for the security issues that concern you the most and recompile. Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: apt-get not upgrading kernel

2008-09-12 Thread Simon Valiquette
? More specifically, can someone confirm that CVE-2008-3915 doesn't affect the 2.6.18 kernel series in Debian? If I believe this link, this bug is not limited to 2.6.24 in Etch-and-a-half. http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2008-3915 Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: apt-get not upgrading kernel

2008-09-12 Thread Simon Valiquette
the bug by pure luck). Checking for that bug is not very difficult, but checking for this bug and all the other one can be very time consumming and boring, which can explain some delay. Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Password leaks are security holes

2008-08-29 Thread Simon Valiquette
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI un jour écrivit: Simon Valiquette wrote: Personally, I would prefer never to see password stored in clear text anywhere, whatever the file permissions are. And If I really want to still see them, I certainly won't complain if all I have to do is make a small change

Re: Fwd: Password leaks are security holes

2008-08-28 Thread Simon Valiquette
that someone could guess anyway, so that is a non-issue (except for the fact that the password should obviously be changed for a better one). Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Password leaks are security holes

2008-08-28 Thread Simon Valiquette
writting down the password somewhere they think nobody will find It, even if It is forbiden by policy. Policy won't change human nature, sorry. Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS and cats: Password leaks are security holes

2008-08-28 Thread Simon Valiquette
W. Martin Borgert un jour écrivit: On 2008-08-28 20:40, Simon Valiquette wrote: That's obviously true, but that doesn't cover the case when logs are copied to a second system with sysadmins that doesn't have access to the first server. And if someone use the standard 514 syslog port instead

Re: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 serves up Debian... WTF!

2008-06-08 Thread Simon Valiquette
, which is something done by a lot of people on production systems that directly face the Internet. Simon Valiquette -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Linux PPC) iD8DBQFITE9qJPE+P+aMAJIRA5JpAKCtOVrvTPpcDw1/lxI7CV6oxoItDwCg9jvq kRg3a23JXWO5piDR5sl43Kc= =tHtZ -END PGP

Re: Accepted openssh-blacklist 0.3 (source all)

2008-05-21 Thread Simon Valiquette
. In any case, It can generate 2048 DSA keys or even longer ones if needed. Look at those man pages and on Google. man openssl man dsaparam man gendsa Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1571-1] vulnerability of past SSH/SSL sessions

2008-05-14 Thread Simon Valiquette
and host key of every possibly affected system (mostly done), but I would feel better by knowing exactly what to expect. Thank you, Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1571-1] vulnerability of past SSH/SSL sessions

2008-05-14 Thread Simon Valiquette
Micah Anderson un jour écrivit: * Simon Valiquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-14 16:36-0400]: In other words, if a vulnerable key have been involved, and if someone was able to intercept and save the encrypted data, he/she can now decipher It, whether It is passwords, ssh sessions, secure

Re: securing server

2008-05-07 Thread Simon Valiquette
of). Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel upgrade for 3Ware Driver issues?

2008-04-23 Thread Simon Valiquette
at the same time. But there should be an official way to get major problems fixed when the risk of breaking somethings is low enough. Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1494-1] New linux-2.6 packages fix privilege escalation

2008-02-11 Thread Simon Valiquette
(though It is obviously not the case here). Simon Valiquette http://gulus.USherbrooke.ca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Linux PPC) iD8DBQFHsNVRJPE+P+aMAJIRA9XjAKDBFjM1qF7Uoz69bWAqmShNgHr2vQCeJSTo 1fV9NossyFITd9IVkE5JtE8= =9dXH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Firewall with woody

2007-10-17 Thread Simon Valiquette
than Sarge in my opinion and would go directly there. If you are paranoid, you will also want to activate SELinux. Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DSA 1360-1] New rsync packages fix arbitrary code execution

2007-08-28 Thread Simon Valiquette
missing in the advisory. Actually, the file have not been uploaded at all on security.debian.org Is there again a problem with the build host or something? Simon Valiquette -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Linux PPC) iD8DBQFG1HZDJPE+P+aMAJIRAwJPAKCmLg7fUG0YSywkQexoPL

Re: [DSA 1359-1] New dovecot packages fix directory traversal

2007-08-28 Thread Simon Valiquette
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Simon Valiquette un jour écrivit: There is no updated packages for Debian Etch PowerPC, contrarily to what is stated on the previous line. In case sec.deb.org/dists/etch/updates/main/binary-powerpc/Packages.gz would not have been up

Re: secure installation

2007-08-16 Thread Simon Valiquette
the computer significantly more secure (many trojan will use port 80 or 21 anyway). But adding the option to install a firewall in the expert mode makes sense to me. Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ftpd - security thread ?

2007-05-05 Thread Simon Valiquette
to reproduce It? apt-get -Vu remove --purge ftpd Then your next installation will again download ftpd from this mirror. Unless me missed something, problem solved. Simon Valiquette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPG errors from apt update

2006-08-31 Thread Simon Valiquette
: ike.egr.msu.edu archive.progeny.com debian-mirror.mirror.umn.edu mirrors1.kernel.org Could it be something about bad synchronization between those servers? I don't think it should happens under normal circumstances, especially with the 2-stages mirroring scheme, but it might be worth to verify. Simon