MALWARE HOAX FW: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-039

2001-07-16 Thread Robert D. Hughes
First of all, here's the headers: Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([194.221.183.20]) by hexch01.robhughes.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:07:01 -0500 X-Proxy: fwall.robhughes.com protected by Firewall Received: (qmail

RE: [COVERT-2001-04] Vulnerability in Oracle 8i TNS Listener

2001-07-16 Thread Aaron C. Newman
Oracle has an ftp server that allows anonymous downloads. You can get the patches from there. ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com/server/patchsets/ Aaron C. Newman CTO/Founder Application Security, Inc. 212-490-6022 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.appsecinc.com -Protection Where It Counts- > I dont want support a

Samsung ML-85G Printer Linux Helper/Driver Binary Exploit (Mandrake: ghostscript package)

2001-07-16 Thread aleph1
- Forwarded message from Charles Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Charles Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bugtraq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Kevin Finisterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Samsung ML-85G Printer Linux Helper/Driver Binary Exploit (Mandrake: ghostscr

Quake client and server denial-of-service

2001-07-16 Thread Andrew J . Gavin
Below is qflood.c, inspired by a bored Sunday and a bugtraq post from 1998. This will fill up a Quake server with spoofed "unconnected" clients, disallowing other players the ability to connect to the server since the player limit fills up quickly. Additionally, if the server does not suppo

Re: 2.4.x/Slackware Init script vulnerability

2001-07-16 Thread josh
# lsmod Module Size Used by chmod656 0 (unused) pcmcia_core41792 0 ppp_deflate39008 0 (unused) ppp_async 6864 0 (unused) ppp_generic19280 0 [ppp_deflate ppp_async] slip8416 0

Re: W2k: Unkillable Applications

2001-07-16 Thread Chad Loder
This does sound like a bug in the Task Manager, and maybe there are MINOR security implications in the fact that the Task Manager tells the administrator "This is a critical system process" when it's not...but the fact that the system administrator is trying to kill the process seems to suggest th

Re: Tripwire temporary files

2001-07-16 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jarno Huuskonen" writes: > If you look a little below you'll see a call to FileDelete(strName); So > first you create a file with mkstemp and then unlink it. And because > cFileArchive::OpenReadWrite(line 708) then opens the same file(name) without > O_EXCL there

Re: Messenger/Hotmail passwords at risk

2001-07-16 Thread Mark
> The simplest of these, in terms of retrofitting existing systems that use > one of the constructions Ishikawa mentions, is > > H(password || H(password || known-string)) Which is very close to CRAM-MD5. That uses: H( (password XOR 0x5C) || H( (password XOR 0x36) || challenge-str

Re: dip 3.3.7p-overflow

2001-07-16 Thread Ron van Daal
Hi Marcin, > > After doing a check on my SuSE linux 7.0 x86 i found something interesting: > > > > hegi@faust:~ > ls -la /usr/sbin/dip > > -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dialout 62056 Jul 29 2000 /usr/sbin/dip > > > > DIP: Dialup IP Protocol Driver version 3.3.7p-uri (25 Dec 96) > > Written by Fred

[RHSA-2001:091-07] New elm packages available for Red Hat Linux 5.2, 6.2, 7 and 7.1

2001-07-16 Thread bugzilla
- Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: New elm packages available for Red Hat Linux 5.2, 6.2, 7 and 7.1 Advisory ID: RHSA-2001:091-07 Issue date:2001-07-03 Updated on:

RE: Win2K/NTFS messes file creation time/date

2001-07-16 Thread Michael C. Bazarewsky
> Known to who? Is it documented anywhere? MS KB Q172190 discusses this behavior, NTFS Tunneling. It's covered in the Microsoft Official Curriculum course # 922, as well. (I know the MOC is not the most widely looked-at reference, but the KB is fair game.)

RE: W2k: Unkillable Applications

2001-07-16 Thread Snow, Corey
I can confirm this; I created a simple Win32 app named "Winlogon.exe" and Task Manager refused to terminate it. However, I discovered something interesting: Microsoft's "kill" utility will terminate the faux winlogon.exe, but will not terminate the real one. See below- pid 1692 is the pid for my

RE: Card Service International / LinkPoint API Security Concerns

2001-07-16 Thread Tolga Tarhan
I've been asked by Raymond Sundland to forward this reply to my post. He has an alternative (and very clever) way this security issue can be "exploited". Nobody from CSI has been in any further contact with me, and I think they've pretty much ignored my phone call from last week. Anyone on th

Re: Messenger/Hotmail passwords at risk

2001-07-16 Thread gregory duchemin
hello >The claim that he makes is surely interesting. I tried running the md5crack >on my system which is a linux6.1 Intel pentium 3 733 MHz and I was able to >get around 1/100 of what he claims. Although he uses a 1GHz AMD can the >performances be so different ??? try without -v/-V (verbose),

RE: Windows MS-DOS Device Name DoS vulnerabilities

2001-07-16 Thread David LeBlanc
> -Original Message- > From: Martin Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 3:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: AW: Windows MS-DOS Device Name DoS vulnerabilities > > > Just want to give a new thought. > > Fact is, that on the one hand side, its merely impo

W2k: Unkillable Applications

2001-07-16 Thread Thomas Zehetbauer
Task Manager in Windows 2000 refuses to kill any process named - winlogon.exe - csrss.exe - smss.exe - services.exe showing a message box stating that this is a critical system process and cannot be ended by task manager. Although these processes were and are still protected by their ACL (Access

Re: SECURITY.NNOV: directory traversal and path globing in multiplearchivers

2001-07-16 Thread Pavel Kankovsky
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, 3APA3A wrote: > GNU tar (all platforms): > > tar below 1.13.19 including latest releases has no any ".." or > absolute path protection. Tar development team was contacted. They > replied they're aware of problem and current development version > 1.13.19 i

RE: Messenger/Hotmail passwords at risk

2001-07-16 Thread Michael Wojcik
> -Original Message- > From: Ishikawa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:50 AM >From the discussion, I think some readers missed > the point of the original poster. > Using "||" as string concatination operator, it seems that > > MD5 (given-long-string || s

RE: Win2K/NTFS messes file creation time/date

2001-07-16 Thread Mark Norman
Hello all, Just wanted to provide y'all with some info. > > > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Acryl wrote: > > > > > Again the 3 files were created, but the Creation time/date was set > > > wrong, namely it was set to the very first creation time > ( before I > > > deleted them by hand ). Any follow

[RHSA-2001:095-04] New util-linux packages available to fix vipw permissions problems

2001-07-16 Thread bugzilla
- Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: New util-linux packages available to fix vipw permissions problems Advisory ID: RHSA-2001:095-04 Issue date:2001-07-12 Updated on:

AW: Windows MS-DOS Device Name DoS vulnerabilities

2001-07-16 Thread Martin Werner
Just want to give a new thought. Fact is, that on the one hand side, its merely impossible to write an safe ftp server using Microsofts Filesystem, because device names can cause trouble (and I think, this is not a bug, but it's been discussed) So I think, good coding practice is not using a fun

RE: SECURITY.NNOV: special devices access in multiple archivers

2001-07-16 Thread Les Ault
I am running Win2k w/Sp1, WinZip 8.0 (3105) locks up, just right click and close the window on the taskbar... however WinAce Archiver 2.03 locks up and must be killed via the task manager. Les Ault -Original Message- From: 3APA3A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2

Re[2]: SECURITY.NNOV: special devices access in multiple archivers

2001-07-16 Thread 3APA3A
Hello Les, It means you have no printer installed on PRN:. Install any printer on lpt1:. You need not connect physical device - simply install printer and check new document will appear in queue. --Monday, July 16, 2001, 11:13:20 AM, you wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LA> I am running Win2k w

2.4.x/Slackware Init script vulnerability

2001-07-16 Thread josh
I posted this to the linux kernel mailing last Friday, July 13th 2001: Submitted by : Josh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), lockdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on July 16th, 2001 Vulnerability : /lib/modules/2.4.5/modules.dep Tested On : Slackware 8.0. 2.4.5 Local : Yes Remote:

Re: suid xman 3.1.6 overflows

2001-07-16 Thread Matias Sedalo
The file /usr/X11R6/bin/xman isn't setuid in slackware 7.1/7.2/8.0 but...\ s0t4ipv6@gohan:~$ export MANPATH=`perl -e 'print "A" x 7000'` s0t4ipv6@gohan:~$ xman Xman Error: No manual pages found. s0t4ipv6@gohan:~$ export MANPATH=`perl -e 'print "A" x 7'` s0t4ipv6@gohan:~$ xman Segmentation fa

Re: Messenger/Hotmail passwords at risk

2001-07-16 Thread Martin Macok
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:56:29AM +0530, Gaurav Agarwal wrote: > > > Uh huh. So you are saying that, given MD5(password), password > > > may be recovered by brute force. And this is new/interesting in > > > what way? > > > > The interesting thing is he can (allegedly) do it at 2.5e6 > > tries/s

Re: Win2K/NTFS messes file creation time/date

2001-07-16 Thread Gerald Carter
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Ken Brown wrote: > Known to who? Is it documented anywhere? Sorry :-) I spend a lot of time in Samba development and I should have clarified that we (SAMBA developmers) have known about it for some time. I assumed it was documented in the KB somewhere. Should have checked.

RE: cayman strikes again

2001-07-16 Thread Paul Allman
my cayman 2e allows anyone to login with any character string (but does not grant admin abilities) paul allman -Original Message- From: Joshua Fritsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:50 PM To: 'Russell Handorf '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Subj

Re: [ESA-20010711-02] sudo elevated privileges vulnerability

2001-07-16 Thread Jonathan A. Zdziarski
These kinds of issues with sudo have been around for years. Even if you deleted vi from the system, you can still do anything you want if you have root privs to the right binaries: tar: (to perform backups, etc) Untar a new password file overwriting the old, or untar a setuid root shell leaving

Re: Win2K/NTFS messes file creation time/date

2001-07-16 Thread Ken Brown
Gerald Carter wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Acryl wrote: > > > Again the 3 files were created, but the Creation time/date was set > > wrong, namely it was set to the very first creation time ( before I > > deleted them by hand ). Any following runs of the program produced the > > same result

Re: Win2K/NTFS messes file creation time/date

2001-07-16 Thread Justin Nelson
Hello, > I accidently stumbled accross this error when I made a program of mine > create 3 text files containing different debug output. ... > When I ran my program the very first time it created the 3 text files and > set all of the 3 values properly as the should. > After viewing the files I de