Re: [qubes-users] Cryptsetup Vulnerability affects QubesOS?

2016-11-24 Thread Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 12:19:14AM +0300, Eva Star wrote: > On 11/19/2016 10:31 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > > Yes, exactly > > Is it possible to check non encrypted boot part of the disk for checksums > after OS was loaded and warn us

Re: [qubes-users] Cryptsetup Vulnerability affects QubesOS?

2016-11-24 Thread Eva Star
On 11/19/2016 10:31 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: Yes, exactly Is it possible to check non encrypted boot part of the disk for checksums after OS was loaded and warn user about some changes? ( or check some files on boot part) Is it a good idea? Or maybe some USB disk with loader w

Re: [qubes-users] Cryptsetup Vulnerability affects QubesOS?

2016-11-19 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 11/19/2016 02:31 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 07:20:56PM +, Fred wrote: On 2016-11-19 11:54, Andrew David Wong wrote: On 2016-11-16 13:31, Fred wrote: A good time to ask if Qubes encrypts /boot in it's LU

Re: [qubes-users] Cryptsetup Vulnerability affects QubesOS?

2016-11-19 Thread Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 07:20:56PM +, Fred wrote: > On 2016-11-19 11:54, Andrew David Wong wrote: > > On 2016-11-16 13:31, Fred wrote: > > > A good time to ask if Qubes encrypts /boot in it's LUKS setup. I've > > > not > > > checked myself. > > >

Re: [qubes-users] Cryptsetup Vulnerability affects QubesOS?

2016-11-19 Thread Fred
On 2016-11-19 11:54, Andrew David Wong wrote: On 2016-11-16 13:31, Fred wrote: A good time to ask if Qubes encrypts /boot in it's LUKS setup. I've not checked myself. By default, Qubes does not encrypt /boot. Traditionally, that's because doing so would render the system unbootable. However,

Re: [qubes-users] Cryptsetup Vulnerability affects QubesOS?

2016-11-19 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 19.11.2016 um 12:54 schrieb Andrew David Wong: > By default, Qubes does not encrypt /boot. Traditionally, that's > because doing so would render the > system unbootable. However, that's no longer true with newer versions > of GRUB, which are now capable > of booting from encrypted block devices.

Re: [qubes-users] Cryptsetup Vulnerability affects QubesOS?

2016-11-19 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-11-16 13:31, Fred wrote: > A good time to ask if Qubes encrypts /boot in it's LUKS setup. I've not > checked myself. > By default, Qubes does not encrypt /boot. Traditionally, that's because doing so would render the system unbootable. How

Re: [qubes-users] Cryptsetup Vulnerability affects QubesOS?

2016-11-17 Thread john
Setting a boot password in the BIOS should mitigate adequately since initrd does not execute until after boot password entry. On 11/17/2016 12:20 AM, Vít Šesták wrote: According to the description, it looks likely to affect Qubes. According to my experience, I remember getting in the shell (fr

[qubes-users] Cryptsetup Vulnerability affects QubesOS?

2016-11-16 Thread Vít Šesták
According to the description, it looks likely to affect Qubes. According to my experience, I remember getting in the shell (from a different reason) and it asked for a password. I believe this happened when upgrading to 3.2 due to a mountpoint issue. This suggests that Qubes is not affected, but

Re: [qubes-users] Cryptsetup Vulnerability affects QubesOS?

2016-11-16 Thread Fred
On 16/11/2016 19:10, berthold_...@web.de wrote: > Does this affect QubesOS? > > https://threatpost.com/cryptsetup-vulnerability-grants-root-shell-access-on-some-linux-systems/121963/ > Looks like a fairly low priority to me. You can get initramfs shell in a Busybox and have access to /boot (on s

[qubes-users] Cryptsetup Vulnerability affects QubesOS?

2016-11-16 Thread berthold_tom
Does this affect QubesOS? https://threatpost.com/cryptsetup-vulnerability-grants-root-shell-access-on-some-linux-systems/121963/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, se