Re: XDM Insecurity revisited

1999-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Jochen Bauer wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 Eric Augustus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted a message on BUGTRAQ about the fact, that the default Xaccess file allows XDMCP connections from any host. As you know, this can be used to get a login screen on any host and therefore get around access control

Re: DOS against SuSE's identd

1999-08-20 Thread Volker Wiegand
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Danton Nunes wrote: Hendrik says: The inetd.conf starts the identd with the options -w -t120 -e. This means that one identd process waits 120 seconds after answering the first request to answer later request. No. accordint to inetd's man page: The

Re: Microsoft JET/Office Vulnerability Exploit

1999-08-20 Thread Ben Greenbaum
Just a reminder, there are workarounds to solve this. Cut-n-pasted from the vulnerability listing: MDAC 2.1 includes the JET 4.0 driver which is not affected by this vulnerability. It is available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/data/download.htm Also, Wanderley J. Abreu Jr. [EMAIL

Jet 3.51 Vul / Office 97

1999-08-20 Thread hexedit
I don't particularly agree with the NTBug traq philosophy myself, yet Mr.BrootForce did not originally discover this. I received source on this issue from my friend rain.forest.puppy the day after it was announced. He of course got it from Juan Carlos G. Cuartango, as they were discussing the

Re: XDM Insecurity revisited

1999-08-20 Thread Alan Cox
Digital Unix 4.0E, SuSE Linux 6.1 and Red Hat Linux 6.0 are still (1.5 years later) shipped with this default Xaccess file. It is somehow ironic that e.g. SuSE now uses tcpwrappers by default on most TCP services in it's distribution and describes the use of tcpwrappers in the manual in a

Re: Win32 File Naming (again)

1999-08-20 Thread David LeBlanc
At 06:40 PM 8/17/99 +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote: While testing IIS security, I was able to locate an old flaw which is still present in many server services on Win32. The problem deals with a compatibility issue with the old Win16/DOS file naming system known as the 8.3 naming system.

Re: [RHSA-1999:028-01] Buffer overflow in libtermcap tgetent()

1999-08-20 Thread Michal Zalewski
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Tymm Twillman wrote: And as Chris Evans pointed out on linux-security, libncurses on RedHat is built with -DPURE_TERMINFO, which keeps it from using the buggy buffer code in libtermcap. ...not quite true - we're able to cause at least several SEGVs in ncurses' tgetent()