Re: FreeBSD bug grants local root access (FreeBSD 6.x)

2009-10-02 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Jacques Marneweck wrote: Hi, Is there any further feedback regarding this bug? There is progress. Has anyone tested to see if this also affects FreeBSD 5.x? FreeBSD 5.x is not a supported branch anymore, so it's unlikely that anyone will check it. See

Re: openssh concerns

2009-10-02 Thread johnea
Garrett Wollman wrote: On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:13:55 -0700, johnea m...@johnea.net said: The thing that concerned me is an entry I saw in netstat showing my system connecting back to a machine that was attempting to log in to ssh. Does the ssh server establish a socket to a client attempting

Re: openssh concerns

2009-10-02 Thread István
Protect against simple DNS spoofing attacks by checking that the... So if the ssh bruteforce is coming from a properly setup DNS host it is ok : On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:28 PM, johnea m...@johnea.net wrote: Garrett Wollman wrote: On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:13:55 -0700, johnea

Re: openssh concerns

2009-10-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, johnea wrote: Garrett Wollman wrote: [..] tcp4 0 0 atom.60448 host154.advance.com.ar.auth TIME_WAIT auth is the port number used by the IDENT protocol. -GAWollman Thank You to everyone who responded! In fact I did

Re: openssh concerns

2009-10-02 Thread Patrick Proniewski
This will provide the greatest relief against drive-by ssh probes, which are pretty much background radiation these days. Some may decry it as 'security by obscurity', but who cares when it works so effectively :) against script kiddies and bots, obscurity is good.

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:13.pipe

2009-10-02 Thread FreeBSD Security Advisories
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FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:14.devfs

2009-10-02 Thread FreeBSD Security Advisories
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2009-10-02 Thread FreeBSD Security Advisories
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