Re: DefCon lecture BSD Kern Vulns

2017-08-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: > > Indeed, there are times when it's best to say nothing :) ___ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: fbsd11 & sshv1

2017-02-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 00:53:31 +, heasley wrote: > Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 11:15:10AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav: > > > i'm suggesting a port with a v1 client; that is built with all the other > > > binary ports for abi changes and whatever else is reasonable. yes, i > > > can build my own, but

Re: Fw: isn't this the worst possible report?? -- i went back and put a copy on a memstick; see attachment

2016-10-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 02:12:25 +, Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security wrote: > But please help me.  These attacks are limiting my work efforts. A lot of people make the mistake of using cheap aluminium foil. You have to use real tin. HTH, Ian ___

Census: How the Government says the website meltdown unfolded

2016-08-09 Thread Ian Smith
Perhaps of interest to some: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-10/census-night-how-the-shambles-unfolded/7712964 cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp

2016-05-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 14:27:17 +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: [..] > The best explanation of all this is John R. Vig's Quartz Tutorial > which is freely available on the web - highly recommended: > > http://www.am1.us/Local_Papers/U11625%20VIG-TUTORIAL.pdf This is one of the best

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-15:11.bind

2015-07-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 12:49:12 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: No workaround is available, but only systems that are manually configured to enable DNSSEC validation are affected. would be a reasonable statement. Agreed. DNSSEC may become mandatory, and while surely 'best practice', it's not yet

Re: Forums.FreeBSD.org - SSL Issue?

2015-05-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 15 May 2015 07:51:34 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2015, at 03:07, Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2015 17:32:53 +0200, Adam Major wrote: Hello But I don't think disable TLS 1.0 is ok. TLS 1.0 is dead and is even now banned in new

Re: Forums.FreeBSD.org - SSL Issue?

2015-05-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 14 May 2015 17:32:53 +0200, Adam Major wrote: Hello But I don't think disable TLS 1.0 is ok. TLS 1.0 is dead and is even now banned in new installations according to the PCI DSS 3.1 standards. Nobody should expect TLS 1.0 to be supported by *any* HTTPS site now.

Re: Forums.FreeBSD.org - SSL Issue?

2015-05-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 14 May 2015 10:28:27 +0200, Patrick Proniewski wrote: On 13 mai 2015, at 23:18, Anders Gulden Olstad wrote: Qualys report chain issues that's pretty odd, because I've checked too just after sending my reply to the list (message id

Re: has my 10.1-RELEASE system been compromised

2015-02-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:55:43 +, Christopher Schulte wrote: On Feb 25, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Philip Jocks pjli...@netzkommune.com wrote: it felt pretty scammy to me, googling for the worm got me to rkcheck.org which was registered a few days ago and looks like a tampered version of

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-15:02.kmem

2015-01-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:01:50 -0800, jungle Boogie wrote: Hi Nick, On Jan 28, 2015 4:56 PM, Nick Frampton nick.framp...@akips.com wrote: On 29/01/15 08:46, Joe Holden wrote: Really, how many SCTP users are there om the wild... maybe one? It shouldn't be in GENERIC at the very

Re: Security SSH

2015-01-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:20:20 -0600, Greg Rivers wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2015, Paul Hoffman wrote: ...and I'm glad we're not discussing the uninformed crypto FUD that started this thread... Agreed, we can all move on now. I only asked about this because I honestly wanted to know what

Re: NEVERMIND!

2014-05-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 26 May 2014 19:46:14 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: ... might syslog trigger adhoc rotations by newsyslog - of a particular log, not all - after learning how to measure 'stress', perhaps by rates of delta filesize, diskspace consumption

Re: NEVERMIND!

2014-05-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 26 May 2014 16:11:52 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com writes: I forgot that newsyslog(8) should limit the size of /var/log/messages, and that as long as you limit the size of that to a reasnable value, and as long as you have newsyslog(8)

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-14:08.tcp

2014-05-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 3 May 2014 01:25:40 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2014 13:53:44 +1000 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au said: I've always allowed frags, as per the example rulesets in rc.firewall. I only recall seeing them on DNS responses from zen.spamhaus.org, where

Re: Retiring portsnap [was MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update]

2014-04-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:33:53 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com writes: My main point was that if you don't trust Subversion it makes no sense to say you trust portsnap. Portsnap pulls the ports tree from Subversion. Using Subversion! The portsnap system

Re: Proposal

2014-04-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 19:00:52 +0100, Pawel Biernacki wrote: On 9 April 2014 17:08, Joe User mailingli...@rootservice.org wrote: On 09.04.2014 17:29, Pawel Biernacki wrote: [snip] We need more transparency here. Please read this and other related threads and you'll understand that

Re: ipfw dynamic rules

2014-03-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:39:36 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: reposting with a useful subject line and more comments On 3/22/14, 10:33 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: in ipfw that's up to you.. but I usually put the check-state quite early in my rule sets. On 3/22/14, 1:34 AM, Ian

Re: URGENT? (was: Re: NTP security hole CVE-2013-5211?)

2014-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:01:25 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message 20140322000445.c31...@sola.nimnet.asn.au, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: As assorted experts have suggested, you need a stateful rule. It's really not that hard; if you _only_ needed to protect ntp

Re: URGENT? (was: Re: NTP security hole CVE-2013-5211?)

2014-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:41:06 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [..] I dearly hope that someone on this list who does in fact have commit privs will jump on this Right Away. I'm not persuaded that running a perfectly configured ipfw... statefully, no less... should be an absolute prerequsite

Anything in this story of concern?

2013-09-08 Thread Ian Smith
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-06/new-snowden-documents-say-nsa-can-break-common-internet-encrypt/4940138 Ian ___ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: FreeBSD DDoS protection

2013-02-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:28:00 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Slight correction: dropping *all* ICMP is a bad idea. You can get by with just unreach. Add timex, echoreq and echorep for troubleshooting

Re: FreeBSD DDoS protection

2013-02-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:52:29 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Mark Felder f...@feld.me writes: Dropping ICMP is not a security method. Please stop doing this! Slight correction: dropping *all* ICMP is a bad idea. You can get by with just unreach. Add timex, echoreq and echorep for

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: emacs installs a lot of 777 directories

2009-03-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:31:21 +0100, Eirik Øverby ltn...@anduin.net wrote: On 16. mars. 2009, at 00.50, freebsd...@pc.jgr.de wrote: Dear Giorgos, thank you for coming back to the emacs issue. I deinstalled emacs by means of pkg_delete -v

Re: OT - Heartland Payment Systems

2009-02-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Janos Dohanics wrote: I came across this today: http://information-security-resources.com/2009/01/29/did-heartland-ceo-make-insider-trades/ The article discusses some questions about the security breach which occurred at Heartland Payment Systems. Among other

Re: Dropping syn+fin replies, but not really?

2008-11-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Eirik Øverby wrote: On Nov 24, 2008, at 23:12, Pieter de Boer wrote: [..] Results for port 8585: IP (tos 0x0, ttl 59, id 44156, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 64) alge.anart.no.1839 213.225.74.230.8585: S, cksum 0xf765 (correct),

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:10.nd6

2008-10-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Ian Smith wrote: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/472363 This link doesn't work, and neither does searching for '472363' there? Or at least, not from here :) It's been working for a few hours now. Time

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:05.openssh

2008-04-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: IV. Workaround Disable support for IPv6 in the sshd(8) daemon by setting the option AddressFamily inet in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Disable support for X11 forwarding in the sshd(8) daemon by setting the option X11Forwarding no

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:05.openssh

2008-04-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 04:07:56PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: IV. Workaround Disable support for IPv6 in the sshd(8) daemon by setting the option AddressFamily inet

Re: denyhosts-like app for MySQLd?

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Dan Lukes wrote: Ian Smith napsal/wrote, On 01/21/08 12:55: No problem; IPFW has tables too, and sets, with which you could enable/disable or It interests me: swap your script-constructed tables atomically. I know how to create new set of rules

Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug?

2007-12-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, W. D. wrote: At 05:45 12/20/2007, Ian Smith, wrote: Thanks for your reply Ian. This is the kind of information I am looking for. Firstly, this really belongs over on freebsd-net@ if not freebsd-questions@, but anyway .. I'll be glad to move

Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug?

2007-12-20 Thread Ian Smith
Firstly, this really belongs over on freebsd-net@ if not freebsd-questions@, but anyway .. On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, W. D. wrote: At 03:49 12/17/2007, Tuomo Latto wrote: W. D. wrote: How do I tell which rule is blocking me out? SSH *is* working, but others are not. It all depends on