Re: tty's messages

2003-12-22 Thread micah
Try dmesg -n1 or alternatively, change your firewall rules so they don't log so much. micah EErdem schrieb am Monday, den 22. December 2003: Hi, From i've set up iptables i've get this messages continual on tty's (console

Re: tty's messages

2003-12-22 Thread micah
Try dmesg -n1 or alternatively, change your firewall rules so they don't log so much. micah EErdem schrieb am Monday, den 22. December 2003: Hi, From i've set up iptables i've get this messages continual on tty's (console

Re: On Mozilla-* updates

2005-07-31 Thread Micah
this problem? micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian mirrors and MITM

2014-07-03 Thread micah
with onion addresses. Are there any mirrors with a hidden service onion address? If so, I would like to know where! Are there any mirror operators out there who might be interested in adding a tor hidden service, but don't know how? If so, contact me, I'd be happy to help you set it up. micah

Switching the tracker to git

2014-09-14 Thread micah
to know if anyone thinks otherwise? I don't exactly have the time right now to volunteer for changing things, but I thought that the first step would be to see what people thought, and then maybe if it was clear what people's preferences were, perhaps someone might volunteer! micah

Re: [PATCH] Re: Logjam mitigation for Wheezy?

2015-06-08 Thread micah
Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be writes: On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 10:00:00AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Stefan Fritsch sf at sfritsch.de writes: And custom DH groups are not that easy to handle in an automated way. Right. I'm currently suggesting each site to generate one and roll that out

Re: [PATCH] Re: Logjam mitigation for Wheezy?

2015-06-11 Thread micah
Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de writes: micah micah at riseup.net writes: Encouraging custom DH groups is not a good idea, as this opens up the triple handshake attack possibility[0]. 0. https://www.secure-resumption.com/ (search for Initial DHE Handshake) -- details an attack where

Re: Speaking of broadcasts, is this a security threat?

2000-08-11 Thread Micah Anderson
Well - I was more thinking that whatever service is sending these regularly scheduled broadcasts ought to be choked. I don't have any reason for kerberos to be on and it sort of disturbs me that I can't find this service in either my /etc/services file or even inetd.conf. Micah On Wed, Aug 09

Re: Strange firewall logs

2001-02-10 Thread Micah Anderson
the ICMP port orginate on the 127.0.0.1 end or the destination end? Micah On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Simon Murcott wrote: Tim Bishopric wrote: This log shows that Ipchains is rejecting outbound loopback (lo) traffic with a source IP of 127.0.0.1 and a destination of 127.0.0.1. Protocol 1 is ICMP

Woody ssh exploit

2001-02-22 Thread Micah Anderson
. Unless I am wrong, currently there is no known exploit for this hole, but that isn't that much of a reassurance either. Thanks, Micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Weird protocol

2001-03-06 Thread Micah Anderson
(#106) Micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Followup: Syslog

2001-04-13 Thread Micah Anderson
One additional tweak which falls into line with the security setups, that I think is a good idea is to made the log files in /var/log to be chattr +a (append only) so logfiles cannot be modified or removed altogether to cover up tracks. This isn't the the biggest security trick because all it

psuedonymity and apache

2001-05-01 Thread Micah Anderson
this? I am looking for specifics, not something like Write a perl script, that'll do it. Thanks! Micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

setuid changes

2001-09-21 Thread Micah Anderson
/sbin/checksecurity. But, what is the point of logging these each day into /var/log/setuid.changes if nobody sees them? Why doesn't this list get emailed to root? Am I missing something? Micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

crc32 compensation attack

2001-09-23 Thread Micah Anderson
Got what appears to be a crc32 compensation attack in my logs today, about 10 minutes worth of these types of messages should I be worried? Should I laugh at this feable attempt to break in? Should I gnaw my fingernails with my shotgun on my lap? Active System Attack Alerts

Re: Root is God? (was: Mutt tmp files)

2001-11-16 Thread Micah Anderson
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Mathias Gygax wrote: well, i thought this is the definition of root. no. with LIDS you can protect files and syscalls even from root. in my setup, root cannot even write to his own home directory. No, you can't. No matter how you cut it, root can install a new kernel,

Re: poppassd

2002-01-09 Thread Micah Anderson
Potato has 1.2-14 as its latest for poppasswd... I agree that v1.8-ceti would be a better solution, especially considering the security issues you cited. What does it take to get this version into the security updates? A bug filed? Micah On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Steve Mickeler wrote: I'm using

Re: Debian security being trashed in Linux Today comments

2002-01-14 Thread Micah Anderson
comes a significant loss in security policy. Now that woody draws near to being stable, perhaps the policy can be altered to accomodate for that. Micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Man-db problem

2003-08-15 Thread Micah Anderson
regeneration to work, and would have to be reinstalled from the original packages that they came from in order to get the man pages properly returned. micah On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Per Tenggren wrote: Hey! I updateed my Woody a few days ago and every night I receive the following mail from Cron

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Micah Anderson
, and contacting the package maintainer, but no results. Thanks, micah pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-16 Thread Micah Anderson
. Thanks! micah Steve Kemp schrieb am Tuesday, den 07. October 2003: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:52:59AM +0200, Alain Tesio wrote: I had exactly the same problem, it's because logcheck look for cracking patterns before removing lines which should be ignored, it shouldn't be hard to fix

Re: Why not use /bin/noshell? (was Re: Why do system users have valid shells)

2003-10-23 Thread Micah Anderson
Try the package falselogin micah Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a schrieb am Thursday, den 23. October 2003: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:45:24AM +0200, Tobias Reckhard wrote: Hi We recently noticed that a stock woody install produces an /etc/passwd in which most, if not all, system

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux kernel memory

2003-12-02 Thread Micah Anderson
complaining about this and not doing anything? ;) micah On Tue, 02 Dec 2003, Adam ENDRODI wrote: Just a humble question: how the average user who doesn't use the kernel sources provided by Debian and cannot follow lk should have known about the bug? The changelog read ``Add TASK_SIZE check

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux kernel memory

2003-12-02 Thread Micah Anderson
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:35:51PM -0600, Micah Anderson wrote: I want to chime in here also, I too was unhappy that I did not know about a local root exploit in 2.4.22 until the Debian machines were compromised in this manner. I think a lot of people

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux kernel memory

2003-12-02 Thread Micah Anderson
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Micah Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I want to chime in here also, I too was unhappy that I did not know about a local root exploit in 2.4.22 until the Debian machines were compromised in this manner. I think a lot of people were in the same

Re: have the compromized debian servers been cleaned?

2003-12-05 Thread Micah Anderson
They are clean. On Fri, 05 Dec 2003, Mo Zhen Guang wrote: Hi, I am going to install a few new debian servers, but I worry about the integratity of the packages because of the incident of compromised debian servers some days ago. Can anybody confirm me if these servers are clean now?

Re: password managers

2004-06-15 Thread Micah Anderson
Try kedpm, its a debian package, and has console as well as GUI support and uses the FPM data, really nice. micah On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Kenneth Jacker wrote: al what does everyone else use to keep track of all there passwords? I've used 'tkpasman' for years ... nice! http

Re: Advice needed, trying to find the vulnerable code on Debian webserver.

2004-06-16 Thread Micah Anderson
couldn't get any of them to find the problem that is being discussed here. micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Micah Stetson
are the file I/O operators, so -dSAFER is unnecessary. Micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Official security support for sarge

2004-08-19 Thread Micah Anderson
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] message posted by Steve Langasek on Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:11:55: Aug. 8: Official security support for sarge begins Anyone have any updates on this? Is it happening, is it delayed, what can we do to help? micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ph.unimelb.edu.au #1012] AutoReply: [SECURITY] [DSA 674-1] New mailman packages fix several vulnerabilities

2005-02-10 Thread Micah Anderson
announcements to you and your organization and you want to make sure someone follows up on them, but I don't think the rest of the list needs to know that. Please do us all a favor and turn off your auto-responder. Micah On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Physics IT Support via RT wrote: Hello, Thank you

Re: using sarge on production machines

2005-02-18 Thread Micah Anderson
in UMLled system components. Have a look at vservers (http://linux-vserver.org/), designed specifically to fix the problems that can be circumvented with chroots, take up significantly less resources than UMLs, and are really quite cool. micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bits from the Testing Security team

2005-03-15 Thread Micah Anderson
[ note: Reply-To: set to debian-devel ] This is a quick summary of the Debian Testing Security Team[1] work and a request for some aid to help sort out some difficult Sarge security problems. Contents of this message: What the Testing Security Team has been up to How can I

Re: CAN-2005-0448 and #286905, dsa?

2005-03-17 Thread Micah Anderson
a message there, it will become re-opened. Micah On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Geoff Crompton wrote: I noticed that #286905 fixes CAN-2005-0448, however it fixes it for version 5.8.4-7, while stable has perl version 5.6.1-8.8. #286905 is marked as resolved, will this fix be backported to stable

Re: CAN-2005-0448 and #286905, dsa?

2005-03-17 Thread Micah Anderson
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Micah Anderson wrote: I think that the best course of action with regards to this query is to send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking this very question. The maintainers of this package are probably not paying attention to debian-security, but would respond

Re: xpdf vulnerability?

2005-03-17 Thread Micah Anderson
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Frank Küster wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7. Is our xpdf vulnerable to CAN-2005-0206[13]? This also needs to be checked for pdftex (in tetex-bin) and pdftohtml, and perhaps others that include xpdf code

Re: CAN-2005-0210, kernel netfilter dos memory leak

2005-03-29 Thread Micah Anderson
Fixed in 2.6.8-15 (see #300838) Things that show up in that list are unresolved items, if it doesn't show up there then it is resolved. Micah On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Geoff Crompton wrote: On http://merkel.debian.org/~joeyh/testing-security.html this CAN is listed, as waiting for a 2.4.27-9

Re: bid 12877, apache mod_ssl remote DoS

2005-03-30 Thread Micah Anderson
against apache (tagging it security), and providing as much information as you can. Or the problem does not affect the particular version of apache in Debian... Do your absolute best to figure out the latter first. Micah On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Geoff Crompton wrote: Does anyone know if apache 1.3

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security - action

2005-06-28 Thread Micah Anderson
on this project. Here is some information about the history of the team, and if you read through the message there is information about how to help: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/03/msg00014.html micah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security - action

2005-06-29 Thread Micah Anderson
Alvin Oga schrieb am Tuesday, den 28. June 2005: On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Micah Anderson wrote: Alvin Oga schrieb am Tuesday, den 28. June 2005: If you are interested in testing security, then there is a group working on this project. Here is some information about the history

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security - action

2005-06-29 Thread Micah Anderson
Alvin Oga schrieb am Wednesday, den 29. June 2005: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Micah Anderson wrote: Alvin Oga schrieb am Tuesday, den 28. June 2005: You sent an email where about what and got no response? I did not see your offer to help come across the mailing list (if it is there, can

Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security - action

2005-06-29 Thread Micah Anderson
Alvin Oga schrieb am Wednesday, den 29. June 2005: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Micah Anderson wrote: i think you can search thru the debian security archives just as easily as i can or in fact even more easily since yu have a debian acct ?? Did you read the email that I referenced

Strange firewall logs

2001-02-10 Thread Micah Anderson
: output REJECT lo PROTO=1 +127.0.0.1:3 127.0.0.1:3 L=92 S=0xC0 I=4545 F=0x T=255 (#64) Feb 10 15:40:48 stallman kernel: Packet log: output REJECT lo PROTO=1 +127.0.0.1:3 127.0.0.1:3 L=92 S=0xC0 I=5884 F=0x T=255 (#64) Does anyone know what these are? Thanks! Micah

Re: Strange firewall logs

2001-02-10 Thread Micah Anderson
the ICMP port orginate on the 127.0.0.1 end or the destination end? Micah On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Simon Murcott wrote: Tim Bishopric wrote: This log shows that Ipchains is rejecting outbound loopback (lo) traffic with a source IP of 127.0.0.1 and a destination of 127.0.0.1. Protocol 1

Woody ssh exploit

2001-02-22 Thread Micah Anderson
. Unless I am wrong, currently there is no known exploit for this hole, but that isn't that much of a reassurance either. Thanks, Micah

Weird protocol

2001-03-06 Thread Micah Anderson
(#106) Micah

Re: Followup: Syslog

2001-04-13 Thread Micah Anderson
One additional tweak which falls into line with the security setups, that I think is a good idea is to made the log files in /var/log to be chattr +a (append only) so logfiles cannot be modified or removed altogether to cover up tracks. This isn't the the biggest security trick because all it does

psuedonymity and apache

2001-05-01 Thread Micah Anderson
this? I am looking for specifics, not something like Write a perl script, that'll do it. Thanks! Micah

Re: shared root account

2001-07-09 Thread Micah Anderson
worth the additional cracks? Do you trust each admin to be secure with both their password choices as well as the rest of their actions? Micah On Sun, 08 Jul 2001, Andres Salomon wrote: This is completely off-topic at this point, but there are a few uses of sudo. The original poster trusts

Re: shared root account

2001-07-10 Thread Micah Anderson
and age, and are decent passwords? And how does one reliably log sudo logs offsite? Micah

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 076-1] New most packages available

2001-09-18 Thread Micah Anderson
Not all mutt users use vi, as a pager I use most, as an editor I use jed. These things can be configured. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Andres Salomon wrote: Aside from the fact that it's a pretty big IF; I'm not aware of too many mail clients that use pagers. mutt uses vi, pine uses pico, X based

crc32 compensation attack

2001-09-24 Thread Micah Anderson
Got what appears to be a crc32 compensation attack in my logs today, about 10 minutes worth of these types of messages should I be worried? Should I laugh at this feable attempt to break in? Should I gnaw my fingernails with my shotgun on my lap? Active System Attack Alerts

Re: Root is God? (was: Mutt tmp files)

2001-11-16 Thread Micah Anderson
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Mathias Gygax wrote: well, i thought this is the definition of root. no. with LIDS you can protect files and syscalls even from root. in my setup, root cannot even write to his own home directory. No, you can't. No matter how you cut it, root can install a new kernel,

Re: poppassd

2002-01-09 Thread Micah Anderson
Potato has 1.2-14 as its latest for poppasswd... I agree that v1.8-ceti would be a better solution, especially considering the security issues you cited. What does it take to get this version into the security updates? A bug filed? Micah On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Steve Mickeler wrote: I'm using

Re: Debian security being trashed in Linux Today comments

2002-01-14 Thread Micah Anderson
comes a significant loss in security policy. Now that woody draws near to being stable, perhaps the policy can be altered to accomodate for that. Micah

Re: Man-db problem

2003-08-15 Thread Micah Anderson
regeneration to work, and would have to be reinstalled from the original packages that they came from in order to get the man pages properly returned. micah On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Per Tenggren wrote: Hey! I updateed my Woody a few days ago and every night I receive the following mail from Cron

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Micah Anderson
, and contacting the package maintainer, but no results. Thanks, micah pgpaGKEe3owA6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-16 Thread Micah Anderson
. Thanks! micah Steve Kemp schrieb am Tuesday, den 07. October 2003: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:52:59AM +0200, Alain Tesio wrote: I had exactly the same problem, it's because logcheck look for cracking patterns before removing lines which should be ignored, it shouldn't be hard to fix

Re: Why not use /bin/noshell? (was Re: Why do system users have valid shells)

2003-10-23 Thread Micah Anderson
Try the package falselogin micah Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a schrieb am Thursday, den 23. October 2003: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:45:24AM +0200, Tobias Reckhard wrote: Hi We recently noticed that a stock woody install produces an /etc/passwd in which most, if not all, system

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux kernel memory

2003-12-02 Thread Micah Anderson
complaining about this and not doing anything? ;) micah On Tue, 02 Dec 2003, Adam ENDRODI wrote: Just a humble question: how the average user who doesn't use the kernel sources provided by Debian and cannot follow lk should have known about the bug? The changelog read ``Add TASK_SIZE check

Re: have the compromized debian servers been cleaned?

2003-12-05 Thread Micah Anderson
They are clean. On Fri, 05 Dec 2003, Mo Zhen Guang wrote: Hi, I am going to install a few new debian servers, but I worry about the integratity of the packages because of the incident of compromised debian servers some days ago. Can anybody confirm me if these servers are clean now?

Web software security scanners

2004-04-07 Thread Micah Anderson
Hey all, I am looking for some scanners which look for known vulnerabilities in different web software. I have a collegue who runs a community web server with some 100 different sites and almost half that in different CMS', blogs, publishing software, formmail scripts, postnuke, phpnuke,

Security holes in 2.4.25?

2004-04-14 Thread Micah Anderson
seems to have a local root exploit for CDROMs: http://lwn.net/Articles/80480/ micah Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders

Re: Woody Backport of tripwire

2004-04-22 Thread Micah Anderson
micah Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked

Re: password managers

2004-06-15 Thread Micah Anderson
Try kedpm, its a debian package, and has console as well as GUI support and uses the FPM data, really nice. micah On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Kenneth Jacker wrote: al what does everyone else use to keep track of all there passwords? I've used 'tkpasman' for years ... nice! http

Re: Advice needed, trying to find the vulnerable code on Debian webserver.

2004-06-16 Thread Micah Anderson
couldn't get any of them to find the problem that is being discussed here. micah

Re: On Mozilla-* updates

2005-07-31 Thread Micah Anderson
it as such. micah On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Micah wrote: Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: There won't be _any_ Debian solution with the current mozilla.org policy. Not exactly. Correct statement is, '... with the current mozilla.org policy AND Debian traditional way of doing things'. I agree

Re: What is a security bug?

2005-11-24 Thread Micah Anderson
that this extention was highly inadequite comparably. micah -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDhf5A9n4qXRzy1ioRAj4vAJ9R0LkrGvVTbEawGHI/RGZGwCeqsACgqjTe OkN+3cUQZD2ecy6RgnEanAQ= =5ln7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: iptable: --seconds

2005-12-11 Thread Micah Anderson
this is an fun solution to this problem. Hopefully it will get fixed soon. micah 1.http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2005-December/022696.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDnE149n4qXRzy1ioRArhPAKCYEU/SKwwRfzljT27Kz1uSi1k0BACfT7WO

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1193-1] New XFree86 packages fix several vulnerabilities

2006-10-10 Thread Micah Anderson
time. Micah -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFLGtx9n4qXRzy1ioRAscIAJ9yit4nDbeEWU1Zy6VIJJGPJsNnxACePreu ySJpV18udhVkQmaJyPJb/qE= =axFK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: an issue with recent security advisories

2007-06-18 Thread Micah Anderson
You are missing: deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main micah Tomasz Ciolek wrote: Hi All have packages for these updates: [DSA 1308-1] New iceweasel packages [DSA 1309-1] New PostgreSQL 8.1 [DSA 1310-1] New libexif packages been uploaded to the repositories and added

Re: BIND 9 security update

2007-07-25 Thread Micah Anderson
now someone has found a way to predict the sequence numbers again (likely by looking at the algorithm used). Even so, the sequence numbers are not that difficult to predict because you can guess all 2^16 of them at the same time. This real problem in the DNS protocol at a very basic level. Micah

Re: Squid Proxy Cache Security Update Advisory SQUID-2007:2

2007-12-12 Thread Micah Anderson
* Stefan Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071212 01:39]: Hello! http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2007_2.txt This is CVE-2007-6239[1]. Will there be a patch für Debian Etch? Etch and Sarge are vulnerable, the issue is known to the squid maintainer and the security team[2]. 1.

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

2008-05-14 Thread Micah Anderson
. In other words, ssh sessions are not compromised just because an adversary has the host keys (unless a MITM is setup, in which case you need bot the host key and the authentication key to perform a mitm attack). micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: DSA-1571 and GSSAPI

2008-05-15 Thread Micah Anderson
not secure in the least Forgive me it was convenient so sweet and so easy micah --- with apologies to william carlos williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1605-1] DNS vulnerability impact on the libc stub resolver

2008-07-09 Thread Micah Anderson
* Wolfgang Jeltsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-09 13:31-0400]: configure it to only listen on 127.0.0.1, How do I do this? dpkg-reconfigure doesn’t help. I think the bind9 package comes configured this way by default in Debian (a caching-only local nameserver). Micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Study: Attacks on package managers (inclusing apt)

2008-07-17 Thread Micah Anderson
* Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-17 08:09-0400]: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:46:54PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: Today there were some news about a study from the University of Arizona regarding security issues with package management systems (like apt). I did not yet read the whole

Re: What to do about SSH brute force attempts?

2008-08-21 Thread Micah Anderson
command to trigger a denyhosts DOS to lock out anyone they want. micah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What to do about SSH brute force attempts?

2008-08-21 Thread Micah Anderson
and report attacks to (http://headcandy.org/rojo/ for some examples using fail2ban). micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What to do about SSH brute force attempts?

2008-08-21 Thread Micah Anderson
of your choosing. micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Certification Authorities are recommended to stop using MD5 altogether

2008-12-31 Thread Micah Anderson
a legitimate reason to trust any particular Certificate Authority? micah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Certification Authorities are recommended to stop using MD5 altogether

2009-01-01 Thread Micah Anderson
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Micah Anderson wrote: Does anyone have a legitimate reason to trust any particular Certificate Authority? Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org writes: I may be wrong, but I trust the CAs in ca-certificates. I've followed the add

Re: Maintaining packages properly

2009-03-18 Thread Micah Anderson
* Steffen Joeris steffen.joe...@skolelinux.de [2009-03-18 18:48-0400]: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:19:28 am Micah Anderson wrote: [snip: removed some unrelated stuff to move discussion to debian-security, please reply there] On a somewhat tangential note, I've been asked a number of times

Re: vserver path leak?

2009-06-01 Thread Micah Anderson
reproduce what you have seen, using the same kernel. micah ps - upstream doesn't like unofficial packages either :) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: vserver path leak?

2009-06-10 Thread Micah Anderson
* Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au [2009-06-10 03:44-0400]: On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 00:14:45 -0400 Micah Anderson mi...@riseup.net wrote: Thanks for your response, sorry about my delay getting back to you. * Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au [2009-06-01 23:31-0400]: The suggestion in #vserver

Re: vserver path leak?

2009-06-11 Thread Micah Anderson
* Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au [2009-06-11 08:25-0400]: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:05:13 -0400 Micah Anderson mi...@riseup.net wrote: * Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au [2009-06-10 03:44-0400]: On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 00:14:45 -0400 Micah Anderson mi...@riseup.net wrote: Odd. I've just done

Re: Errors when running cron(Debian 6)

2011-05-17 Thread micah anderson
#27213 failed with exit status 1: 1 Time(s) Your cronjob returns an exit status 1, previously crond didn't report that, but now it does. Make your cronjob return a zero exit code to make it go away. micah pgp3rjl40HE1X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#649625: webkit unmaintained security-wise (again)

2012-01-26 Thread Micah Gersten
on 1.8, that would be helpful for 3.5 years or so (6 months until wheezy releases, 2 yrs of stable, 1 yr of old stable). How does this sound to people? -- Micah Gersten Ubuntu Security Team signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#649625: webkit unmaintained security-wise (again)

2012-01-26 Thread Micah Gersten
On 01/26/2012 12:19 PM, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 10:03 -0600, Micah Gersten wrote: In Ubuntu, we need to maintain a stable branch of webkitgtk+ for 5 years for our upcoming LTS. That is from Apr 2012 to Apr 2017. We'll be using the webkitgtk+ 1.8 branch since it's

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-31 Thread micah anderson
package, that provides the kernel with grsecurity patches applied? Don't bother the kernel team with it, and just maintain it yourself in the archive? Its free software afterall. micah pgpy3qdaRwiBa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian mirrors and MITM

2014-05-30 Thread micah anderson
that I've just installed X package, and you then just look over at our security tracker and find that this package has an exploit... micah pgp50ulNq1plS.pgp Description: PGP signature