Re: scans in my hosts. (Debian 5.0 and Apache 2.2.9)

2010-07-29 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 7/29/10 11:43 AM, Ashley Taylor wrote: If your phpMyAdmin installations are safe and protected and you wish to remove these from your log files for vanity reasons, please see this guide with a cool fail2ban config that should help you:

Re: CVE-2009-3555 not addressed in OpenSSL

2010-09-28 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 09/28/2010 03:04 PM, Marsh Ray wrote: On 09/24/2010 02:45 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: But that's a choice made by Debian. Call it release policy, procedure, or whatever, Debian cannot use the existence of its own bureaucracy as a justification for wrong action (or inaction). Microsoft has

Re: CVE-2009-3555 not addressed in OpenSSL

2010-09-29 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 09/29/2010 03:52 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:04:04 -0500, Marsh Ray wrote: On 09/24/2010 02:45 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: Marsh Rayma...@extendedsubset.com writes: As a long-term Debian user myself, I appeal to Debian's sense of enlightened self-interest and urge

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-2115-2] New moodle packages fix several vulnerabilities

2010-10-11 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 10:40 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: The problem here appears to be the jump to the new upstream version (1.8.2 to 1.8.13), which has a different dependency set. New upstreams are usually disallowed in security uploads. The question is why was that OK in this case,

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-2115-2] New moodle packages fix several vulnerabilities

2010-10-11 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:15 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: I highly doubt that there is anything malicious going on here, and there is always the Debian does not hide problems mantra. The simplest, and most-likely explanation is that it was easier to update to the new upstream, rather than

Re: non-executable stack (via PT_GNU_STACK) not being enforced

2010-10-12 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 11:10 +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: And it might be non-obvious, but some CPUs (e.g. the one in my not-so-old laptop) don't support PAE, so making the default kernel use PAE would make debian unbootable on them. Because it's too hard to have ubiquity run a script that

Re: non-executable stack (via PT_GNU_STACK) not being enforced

2010-10-12 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 05:29 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 11:10 +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: And it might be non-obvious, but some CPUs (e.g. the one in my not-so-old laptop) don't support PAE, so making the default kernel use PAE would make debian unbootable on them

Re: non-executable stack (via PT_GNU_STACK) not being enforced

2010-10-12 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 11:35 +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: What's ubiquity? Read the follow up email where I corrected mistake please... Enable what? Last time I checked, a given kernel image either user PAE or not, there was no flag to control it. You read to much into the subjective usage of

Re: non-executable stack (via PT_GNU_STACK) not being enforced

2010-10-14 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 20:09 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On mar., 2010-10-12 at 05:34 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: Also to add, the benefits of NX on PAE far outweigh those of not having PAE, Like, not booting at all? Like, going and buying a better computer? I have no problem booting

Re: non-executable stack (via PT_GNU_STACK) not being enforced

2010-10-14 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 20:21 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: I'm not sure it's a solution Debian can advertise. I know it's not, that is why later down the discussion we brought up the installer giving people the option to either choose the kernel or building a script that will check for PAE and

Re: non-executable stack (via PT_GNU_STACK) not being enforced

2010-10-14 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 17:39 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: There is not only issues of legacy hardware but virtual machines. I signed up for the RHEL 6 beta. Downloaded my copy and fired it up in virtualbox, only to find that it failed to boot, because virtualbox did not support PAE.

Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-27 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 10/27/2010 04:05 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Michael Loftis wrote: checks prior to this indicate a soft success. If you remove authentication from your system, its expected that any attempt to access will pass, barring and specific denial. If I remove

Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-27 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 10/27/2010 05:19 PM, Jim P wrote: Please move this thread to debian-u...@. EOM I find it ironic you top post and don't trim while asking people to move something to Debian-User. This guy has what /he/ thinks is a /security issue/. According to Debian this list is: Discussions about

Re: Number of apache2 process MaxClients ?

2010-10-29 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 10/29/2010 11:06 AM, Min Wang wrote: Hi I have apache2.conf using prefork with MaxClient setting to 30 ( on Lenny) but on system I saw more than 100 apache2 processes Isn't the MaxClients supposed to limit total apache2 processes to be 30? Something may be wrong/security issue?

Re: CVE-2009-3555 not addressed in OpenSSL

2010-11-13 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 18:14 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: I have tested it in some different environments with different types of configurations and the packages work very fine for me. Just one question, did you test the patch or did you test the build? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-2154-1] exim4 security update

2011-01-30 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 1/30/2011 8:11 AM, Dario Ernst wrote: Hello, as i was affected by the recent exim exploit i may be a bit paranoid here, but i have general question on this update. If i am not using -D or -C anywhere in my exim setup (e.g. using the debian default initscripts and have not added any of those

Re: CVE Exploit

2011-03-09 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 3/9/2011 1:26 PM, Timothy Ball wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 01:31:50AM -0800, aizaz83 hussain wrote: Dear I need your Help regarding Exploit development of CVE-2010-3872 Could you please Guide. How might this CVE-2010-3872 be exploited and how might an exploit work bwahahahahaha ...

Re: CVE Exploit

2011-03-11 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 3/11/2011 9:04 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:42:17AM -0500, hans wrote: rm / -rf worked fine last time I tried it on a VM as an experiment. It was fixed in coreutils 6.2 [2006-09-18]. Subjective fix. It can still destroy your system, it can still delete

Re: CVE-2011-1929 - never mind, I missed DSA-2252-1

2011-08-19 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 08/19/2011 10:04 AM, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: Evidently it's been fixed: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2252 Just a future note too, if you ever find a CVE and don't want to Google you can do: http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1929 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: AUTO: Steve Bownas is out of the office. (returning 09/06/2011)

2011-08-21 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 08/21/2011 03:37 PM, David Giard wrote: Are we going to receive those every time he is out of the office? I hope someone will do something about it... Read his email again. Focus on the bottom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-05 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 10/05/2011 05:39 PM, Poison Bit wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Poison Bit poison...@gmail.com wrote: In my experience: if a company does not perform operative system upgrades, the company does not have more than 5 years and does not understand how open source, and in special

Re: AW: Vulnerable PHP version according to nessus

2011-12-28 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk wrote: On 28.12.2011 07:56, Patrick Geschke wrote: Hey, @Maintainers: Whats the overall Status of the package? According to php.net 5.3.8 is stable. 5.3.8 is in both testing and unstable - see

Re: Default valid shells and home dir permissions

2012-01-11 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Kees de Jong keesdej...@gmail.com wrote: For the home dirs try this: dpkg-reconfigure adduser. Then choose 'no'. I think that should do the trick. I am on my Android right now so I can't check it for you. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kees de Jong On Jan 11,

OpenSSH not logging denied public keys, even with logging set to verbose.

2012-03-01 Thread Jordon Bedwell
SSH Version: OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010 part of the config: compression yes maxauthtries 1 port 22 listenaddress 10.6.18.80 protocol 2 useprivilegeseparation yes syslogfacility AUTH loglevel VERBOSE logingracetime 30 permitrootlogin yes strictmodes yes

Re: OpenSSH not logging denied public keys, even with logging set to verbose.

2012-03-01 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Taz taz.ins...@gmail.com wrote: rsaauthentication no change this to yes I'm at a loss, how is setting an option that does not even apply to us (since we use Protocol 2 and that option is moot for us anyways) going to fix a logging issue? Perhaps I need to be more

Re: OpenSSH not logging denied public keys, even with logging set to verbose.

2012-03-01 Thread Jordon Bedwell
2012/3/1 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org: On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 06:56:07AM -0600, Jordon Bedwell wrote: The problem is I cannot get sshd to log publickey denied errors to /var/log/auth.log so our daemons can ban these users.  I want to know what happened to messages like publickey

Re: Opinion on this, password changed, nothing suspicious in logs

2012-05-29 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On May 29, 2012 7:08 AM, Povl Ole Haarlev Olsen debian-secur...@stderr.dk wrote: Without any evidence of intrusion, I wouldn't be surprised if you got a flaky key on your keyboard. Are you sure you don't have a faulty 1 or something like that? This one has gotten me before. What can make it

Re: Daemon umask

2012-08-07 Thread Jordon Bedwell
Hi, On 08/07/2012 08:15 AM, Laurie Mercer wrote: Is it possible to set the umask to a value (in this case 27) at boot time so that all daemon processes started at boot time will have this umask by default (unless they override it)? In Redhat this is done in the /etc/sysconfig/init file,

Re: New rootkit targetting Debian squeeze (amd64 only)

2012-11-23 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Mike Mestnik cheako+debian-secur...@mikemestnik.net wrote: On 11/22/12 11:33, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: More likely: a vulnerability in their web service (some form of execution of attacker-provided code), combined with a local privilege elevation exploit (the

Re: flashplugin-nonfree get-upstream-version.pl security concern

2012-12-12 Thread Jordon Bedwell
Hai, On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Bart Martens ba...@debian.org wrote: I already use mktemp -d /tmp/flashplugin-nonfree.XX. Isn't that secure ? What is the problem you are suggesting to file a bug for ? Please tell me you are trolling? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: flashplugin-nonfree get-upstream-version.pl security concern

2012-12-13 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Davide Prina davide.pr...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/12/2012 23:26, Michael Gilbert wrote: Ultimately, for anyone even modestly security-conscious adobe flash should really be avoided at all costs. +1 I'm not an expert, but I think that packages like this must

Re: How secure is an installation with with no non-free packages?

2013-09-12 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Jonathan Perry-Houts jperryho...@gmail.com wrote: I still don't see why this should make me trust closed code more. For all I know Intel's code is full of lines like that, or worse. It's not about getting you to like closed or open source software more, it's

Re: How secure is an installation with with no non-free packages?

2013-09-12 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:03 PM, adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Microcode. (I guess if the vulnerability can not be fixed with some kind of firmware upgrade and is used in the wild, that would be a reason to get it replaced for free or being required to buy a new one.) I'm not a lawyer

Re: SSL for debian.org/security?

2013-10-29 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Nikolay Kubarelov n...@tightwax.com wrote: I would use Tor hidden service instead of SSL. Wait: What? Can't tell if serious. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: SSL for debian.org/security?

2013-10-29 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Pedro Worcel pe...@worcel.com wrote: I fail to see what would make what hard, could you please explain? Hard, maybe not, needed: no. There is no reason to try and hide the information, there never was and there never will be. If you were to implement SSL and

Re: Debian APT Key Revocation Procedure

2013-10-31 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:55 PM, adrelanos wrote: What are your plans if you ever have reason to believe that the Debian archive signing key has been compromised? It is unlikely that the people responsible for that are

Re: Debian APT Key Revocation Procedure

2013-11-01 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: I take issue with this. I find this attitude really crappy. I'd strongly invite you to reconsider this tone and belief. I invite you to jump back down to earth and stop judging people as if you are somehow better. --

Re: Debian APT Key Revocation Procedure

2013-11-01 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 08:27:03AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: I take issue with this. I find this attitude really crappy. I'd strongly

Re: Debian APT Key Revocation Procedure

2013-11-01 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 08:27:03AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: I

Re: Debian APT Key Revocation Procedure

2013-11-01 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Darko Gavrilovic d.gavrilo...@gmail.com wrote: I should say individual people without the, as the implies you were insulting the people on the team, and not people in general. No one here thinks they are better or smarter than you. It would just be nice if

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-30 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Nov 30, 2013 6:29 PM, Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org wrote: * Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com [131129 00:36]: The standard needs to be re-written to encourage sane behavior in undefined situations, and if you don't like that opinion, I'll take some time later, when I have some, to rip