Portaudit build currently broken

2013-04-03 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
ports SVN - CVS export. It was previously missed that this (yet another automated system we run) needed to be updated as well. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org clusteradm team / FreeBSD Security Team ___ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:06.bind

2012-11-22 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
The FreeBSD Project Topic: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with named(8) Just to make two points clear (since I suspect people might ask). - These fixes are exported to CVS/CVSup. - No, these SA's had nothing to do with the recent security incident. -- Simon L

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:06.bind

2012-11-22 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 23 November 2012 00:11, Simon L. B. Nielsen si...@freebsd.org wrote: On 23 November 2012 00:01, FreeBSD Security Advisories security-advisor...@freebsd.org wrote: = FreeBSD-SA-12:06.bind

Re: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d

2012-09-04 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
Security@ is an alias for secteam (to avoid accidentally leaking confidential reports). -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Via mobile - sorry about the top posting On 4 Sep 2012 13:29, Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no wrote: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org writes: Please do ... probably security

Re: Hardware TOTP tokens

2012-08-24 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
been able to find docs on how your initialize or administer them. http://www.safenet-inc.com/products/data-protection/two-factor-authentication/etoken-pass/ They are sort of programable too if you really want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiTNlSgk-xY :-) -- Simon L. B. Nielsen

Re: getting the running patch level

2012-08-24 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
this issue can be fixed for snmp in a easy way? Make the snmp daemon not do it that way and support magic new scheme which we will hopefully come up with? -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: [HEADSUP] geli(4) weak master key generation on -CURRENT

2012-08-24 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Ulrich Spörlein u...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 22:24:56 +0100, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: Hello, If you are not using geli(4) on -CURRENT (AKA FreeBSD 10) you can safely ignore this mail. If you are, please read on! -CURRENT users of geli(4

Re: getting the running patch level

2012-08-20 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 19 Aug 2012, at 13:33, Jilles Tjoelker jil...@stack.nl wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 09:05:44PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Simon L. B. Nielsen si...@freebsd.org writes: This has been discussed a number of time, but there are no nice and simple solution. There is a simple

Re: [Full-disclosure] nvidia linux binary driver priv escalation exploit

2012-08-10 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
it when/if one is assigned. Eh, why wouldn't a CVE name not be assigned? If none is we should ask MITRE to assign one, but it would surprise me if NVIDIA or a Linux vendor hasn't done this already. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-security

Re: getting the running patch level

2012-08-10 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
on it. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen ___ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-09 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
is their support? When I looked at their website I found nothing about security support, branch handling etc. and nobody has replied to that part in these threads (unless I missed it - I just rescanned thread without seeing a reply). -- Simon L. B. Nielsen

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-04 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/03/2012 05:39, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org writes: The correct solution to this problem is to remove BIND from the base altogether, but I have no energy for all the whinging that would

Re: Default password encryption method.

2012-06-19 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On Jun 19, 2012 3:16 PM, Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:10 AM, ian ivy sidetripp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, By default FreeBSD uses MD5 to encrypt passwords. MD5 is believed to be more secure than e.g. DES but less than e.g. SHA512. Currently several

Re: Update for FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret for 8.1

2012-06-19 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 19 Jun 2012, at 19:15, Steven Chamberlain wrote: On 18/06/12 22:37, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: Note that this is ONLY for FreeBSD 8.1. Other branches are OK. Having seen the correct fix now, I'm starting to wonder if the commit to RELENG_7_4 was really okay too? http

Update for FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret for 8.1

2012-06-18 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
and I would rather fix the issue than battle with a mail program. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen FreeBSD Security Officer ___ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Pre-boot authentication / geli-aware bootcode

2012-06-15 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
be encrypted. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Mobile ___ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Default password hash

2012-06-11 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Gleb Kurtsou gleb.kurt...@gmail.com wrote: On (10/06/2012 11:02), Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: On 8 Jun 2012, at 13:51, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: We still have MD5 as our default password hash, even though known-hash attacks against MD5 are relatively easy

Re: Default password hash

2012-06-11 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org wrote: Hello, Simon. You wrote 10 июня 2012 г., 14:02:50: SLBN Has anyone looked at how long the SHA512 password hashing SLBN actually takes on modern computers?  Modern  computers  are  not what should you afraid. Modern

Re: OpenSSL change for review.

2012-06-10 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
and hardware support AESNI. Or simply replace the whole thing with arc4random_*.. If somebody is interested in doing things along these lines, I strongly suggest trying to rope in some OpenSSL people, e.g. benl@. Patches are good to commit, IMHO. Thanks for giving the patch more eyes. -- Simon L. B

Upgrade port audit now!

2012-03-11 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
Hey, Bleh, even I forget at times that security@ != freebsd-security@ :-). Begin forwarded message: From: Simon L. B. Nielsen si...@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrade port audit now! Date: 11 March 2012 21:40:26 GMT To: po...@freebsd.org, secur...@freebsd.org Hey, If you have portaudit

Re: FIPS compliant openssl possible within the FreeBSD build systems?

2011-03-06 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
possible you can manually build and install stock OpenSSL by hand. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hats: Ex-OpenSSL maintainer, FreeBSD Deputy Security Officer ___ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security