Bug#429405: Wrong usage of su in /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest (New bug)

2007-06-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 07:53:17PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: Hello Bill, Am Mo den 18. Jun 2007 um 17:53 schrieb Bill Allombert: It is not the case on Debian by default: nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/sh That's true but it is not as save as I wanna have it on my systems.

Bug#429405: Wrong usage of su in /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest (New bug)

2007-06-19 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bill, Am Di den 19. Jun 2007 um 14:30 schrieb Bill Allombert: What is you attack model ? So the server has a security flaw and run as user nobody. If the attacker can run arbitrary code as user nobody, why cannot they just exec /bin/sh ? Where

Bug#429405: Wrong usage of su in /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest (New bug)

2007-06-19 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Or another example which I remember of, I had a system where the pam setup was a bit buggy. Now the only user which could attacked was one with a real shell. All other was save. (Well, more or less.) Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Bug#429405: Wrong usage of su in /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest (New bug)

2007-06-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:32:25PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.41 Severity: important Long time now I got the following line every week: Jun 17 22:06:07 ikki popularity-contest: unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi.

Bug#429405: Wrong usage of su in /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest (New bug)

2007-06-18 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Bill, Am Mo den 18. Jun 2007 um 17:53 schrieb Bill Allombert: It is not the case on Debian by default: nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/sh That's true but it is not as save as I wanna have it on my systems. (All system users on

Bug#429405: Wrong usage of su in /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest (New bug)

2007-06-17 Thread Klaus Ethgen
Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.41 Severity: important Long time now I got the following line every week: Jun 17 22:06:07 ikki popularity-contest: unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi. I was wondering why I get this message as everything with this site