Re: Question about security bug fixes for in-tree NSD

2012-09-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-09-20, Mathieu Simon mathieu@gmail.com wrote: G'day This is my first post to this list - so bear with me... OpenBSD has not yet replaced BIND with NSD + Unbound, but NSD 3.2.9 is enabled in 5.1 builds. This version has at least 2 known CVE's that have been fixed with upstream

Re: Question about security bug fixes for in-tree NSD

2012-09-21 Thread Mathieu Simon
Am 21.09.2012 14:51, schrieb Stuart Henderson: CVE-2012-2979 isn't relevant as it's a non-standard build option that we don't use. Good to know, thanks. I have not found a patch for in 5.1 erratas so far. I've just committed a fix for CVE-2012-2978 to 5.1-stable, but I don't have time to

Question about security bug fixes for in-tree NSD

2012-09-20 Thread Mathieu Simon
G'day This is my first post to this list - so bear with me... OpenBSD has not yet replaced BIND with NSD + Unbound, but NSD 3.2.9 is enabled in 5.1 builds. This version has at least 2 known CVE's that have been fixed with upstream releases: 3.2.12: Fix for VU#624931 CVE-2012-2978: NSD denial of

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Nick Holland
Jean-Francois wrote: Hi All, My question is in two parts. First considering the default install, assuming that one box should be only used for exapample as a firewall, how good is the security level ? what kind of rating system are you looking for? My answer is, better than anything

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread bofh
You have to think carefully about the question you are asking. If there are two known remote exploits, what do you think any studies would show you? Less exploits? More exploits? If more, wouldn't that make it into the known exploits list, unless it's a private study where nobody can get

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread carlos
Hi, First considering the default install, assuming that one box should be only used for exapample as a firewall, how good is the security level ? I mean I know there are only 2 remote holes in 10 years, but my qustion is do we have any experience about the level of security such as studies

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Han Boetes
To quote someone a lot smarter than me: Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! -- Edsger Dijkstra, [1972] That should answer your question. # Han

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi This is clear and I truly agree, now maybe not everyone will be capable of breaking into the default system openbsd (this was my first question) and evade from chroot (my second question) therefore the other way around to ask about that concern would be which probability do you estimate for

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi Thanks for your answer. bofh a icrit : You have to think carefully about the question you are asking. If there are two known remote exploits, what do you think any studies would show you? Less exploits? More exploits? I mean what is the experience. If more, wouldn't that make it into

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread FRLinux
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Jean-Francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: I intend to use the box as a simple firewall so I do not intend to have possible break into. The simple task is NAT rule So this is nat + firewalling, not one task, two. Sorry I don't understand. I have just simple

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Jean-Francois
Good evening, Thanks for your answer, my comments within. Regards, Jean-Frangois Nick Holland a icrit : Jean-Francois wrote: Hi All, My question is in two parts. First considering the default install, assuming that one box should be only used for exapample as a firewall, how good is the

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread FRLinux
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Jean-Francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: This is just to have the taste of how good is the actual achievement of security in openbsd. Well, reading from the archives, that should give you a fairly good taste. Sorry please tell me how to proceed then ? For

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Paul M
You need to understand that you're asking questions for which there is no specific answer. I think Nick's first response to your question answered it best - OpenBSD would be better than anything else. If you were to ask specific, detailed questions about specific attack vectors, then specific

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Tony Abernethy
FRLinux wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Jean-Francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: This is just to have the taste of how good is the actual achievement of security in openbsd. Well, reading from the archives, that should give you a fairly good taste. Sorry please tell me