Re: [arch-general] Security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0004) in udisks/udisks2

2014-03-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.03.2014 12:02, schrieb Manuel Reimer: > Thomas Bächler archlinux.org> writes: >> I quickly went over to gmane and requested subscription of arch-security >> to gmane, so there is nothing left but to wait. > > I hope you didn't request readonly as, if I'm registered to the list with > the ma

Re: [arch-general] Security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0004) in udisks/udisks2

2014-03-11 Thread Manuel Reimer
Thomas Bächler archlinux.org> writes: > I quickly went over to gmane and requested subscription of arch-security > to gmane, so there is nothing left but to wait. I hope you didn't request readonly as, if I'm registered to the list with the mail address, I use from the gmane webinterface, it is p

Re: [arch-general] Security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0004) in udisks/udisks2

2014-03-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.03.2014 11:55, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Am 11.03.2014 11:52, schrieb Manuel Reimer: >> Jelle van der Waa vdwaa.nl> writes: >>> FYI: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014- >> March/025952.html >> >> Thank you for this information. >> >> Am I allowed to ask "gmane.org"

Re: [arch-general] Security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0004) in udisks/udisks2

2014-03-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.03.2014 11:52, schrieb Manuel Reimer: > Jelle van der Waa vdwaa.nl> writes: >> FYI: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014- > March/025952.html > > Thank you for this information. > > Am I allowed to ask "gmane.org" to add this list to their archive? This > would rea

Re: [arch-general] Security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0004) in udisks/udisks2

2014-03-11 Thread Manuel Reimer
Jelle van der Waa vdwaa.nl> writes: > FYI: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014- March/025952.html Thank you for this information. Am I allowed to ask "gmane.org" to add this list to their archive? This would really help me to get access to this list. Greetings, Manuel

Re: [arch-general] Security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0004) in udisks/udisks2

2014-03-11 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 03/11/14 at 10:24am, Manuel Reimer wrote: > Hello, > > I already flagged the packages out of date, but maybe other people are > interested, too, that there is a known security hole in udisks/udisks2, > which has been fixed upstream with new releases: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/d

[arch-general] Security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0004) in udisks/udisks2

2014-03-11 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, I already flagged the packages out of date, but maybe other people are interested, too, that there is a known security hole in udisks/udisks2, which has been fixed upstream with new releases: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2014-March/001568.html Greetings, Manuel

Re: [arch-general] security problem in X with screen saver

2012-01-19 Thread Christian Hesse
Florian Pritz on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:44:18 +0100: > On 01/19/2012 09:45 AM, Timothée Ravier wrote: > > 2012/1/19 Magnus Therning : > >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana > >> wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> As per http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NTA > >>> > >>>

Re: [arch-general] security problem in X with screen saver

2012-01-19 Thread Florian Pritz
On 01/19/2012 09:45 AM, Timothée Ravier wrote: > 2012/1/19 Magnus Therning : >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> As per http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NTA >>> >>> There is a quite a serious security problem. >>> >>> Is there a patch co

Re: [arch-general] security problem in X with screen saver

2012-01-19 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On 01/19/12 at 09:57am, Magnus Therning wrote: > > Yes indeed, that works. What the hell was that other article doing > mentioning all those Fn-keys then? > > -- > Magnus Therning                      OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 Just confirming that it works. I hope arch adds the patch to the repos so

Re: [arch-general] security problem in X with screen saver

2012-01-19 Thread Maciej Sitarz
Hi, a quick fix I developed for my Fedora 16 box: 1. Dump the xkb: $ xkbcomp $DISPLAY xkb.dump 2. Make a backup $ cp xkb.dump xkb.dump_orig 3. Remove all entries related to XF86ClearGrab and XF86Ungrab 4. Apply the XKB entries: $ xkbcomp xkb.dump $DISPLAY In case of any problems restore the origi

Re: [arch-general] security problem in X with screen saver

2012-01-19 Thread Magnus Therning
2012/1/19 Timothée Ravier : > 2012/1/19 Magnus Therning : >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> As per http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NTA >>> >>> There is a quite a serious security problem. >>> >>> Is there a patch coming out soon? >>>

Re: [arch-general] security problem in X with screen saver

2012-01-19 Thread Timothée Ravier
2012/1/19 Magnus Therning : > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> As per http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NTA >> >> There is a quite a serious security problem. >> >> Is there a patch coming out soon? >> Does anyone yet know a workaround to th

Re: [arch-general] security problem in X with screen saver

2012-01-19 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana wrote: > Hi All, > > As per http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NTA > > There is a quite a serious security problem. > > Is there a patch coming out soon? > Does anyone yet know a workaround to this in the meanwhile? > Can it be annou

[arch-general] security problem in X with screen saver

2012-01-18 Thread Divan Santana
Hi All, As per http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NTA There is a quite a serious security problem. Is there a patch coming out soon? Does anyone yet know a workaround to this in the meanwhile? Can it be announced?

Re: [arch-general] security

2010-03-12 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Gordon Campbell wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for all your advice. So far I am enjoying my experience with Arch > Linux since I changed my Distro over from Fedora about a month ago. Just one more opinion, it can't hurt :) I myself don't need a firewall beyond my route

Re: [arch-general] security

2010-03-12 Thread Gordon Campbell
Hi, Thanks for all your advice. So far I am enjoying my experience with Arch Linux since I changed my Distro over from Fedora about a month ago. Gordy

Re: [arch-general] Security

2010-03-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/12/2010 05:22 AM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: If you run one of the fat desktops (KDE, Gnome) they will have a GUI tool to configure iptables. FYI - I've found firestarter to be a good, simple one for small home network use. DR

Re: [arch-general] Security

2010-03-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 12 March 2010 19:26:13 Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:49:17 - > > schrieb "Gordon Campbell" : > > I am new to this list and fairly new to Arch Linux. My Question is do > > I need to install a firewall? if so which one? ufw is a good iptables frontend. Pretty easy to se

Re: [arch-general] Security

2010-03-12 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:49:17 - schrieb "Gordon Campbell" : > I am new to this list and fairly new to Arch Linux. My Question is do > I need to install a firewall? if so which one? > > Thanks in advance, Here's a good iptables tutorial with some good example firewall scripts: http://www.froze

Re: [arch-general] Security

2010-03-12 Thread fons
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:49:17AM -, Gordon Campbell wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to this list and fairly new to Arch Linux. My Question is > do I need to install a firewall? if so which one? In Linux the actual firewall is part of the kernel, you just need to activate and configure it. Act

Re: [arch-general] Security

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.03.2010 10:49, schrieb Gordon Campbell: > Hi all, > > I am new to this list and fairly new to Arch Linux. My Question is do I > need to install a firewall? if so which one? > > Thanks in advance, > > Gordy You probably don't, but here is a link to some nice instructions for setting one up

Re: [arch-general] Security

2010-03-12 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Gordon Campbell wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to this list and fairly new to Arch Linux. My Question is do I need > to install a firewall? if so which one? > > Thanks in advance, > > Gordy For a home computer you don't need to have a firewall installed, since you

[arch-general] Security

2010-03-12 Thread Gordon Campbell
Hi all, I am new to this list and fairly new to Arch Linux. My Question is do I need to install a firewall? if so which one? Thanks in advance, Gordy

Re: [arch-general] Security updates & packages in testing

2008-05-21 Thread Eric Belanger
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Hi, there has been some security updates for packages in Core that have been upgraded and have been lying in Testing for a long while. The ones that come to mind are bzip2 and openssh but there might be more. Is there any reason those havent moved y

[arch-general] Security updates & packages in testing

2008-05-20 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Hi, there has been some security updates for packages in Core that have been upgraded and have been lying in Testing for a long while. The ones that come to mind are bzip2 and openssh but there might be more. Is there any reason those havent moved yet? As far as i can see bzip2 is missing some si