Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-12 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
Some people wrote to me: your script is bad, it detects qemu, but qemu is bugfree. ok, looking qemu: qemu makes mount the directory /tmp/mount.$$. Attacker creates many symlinks /tmp/dir.\d+ -> /etc and if qemu (/usr/sbin/qemu-make-debian-root) starts then /etc goes out from root directory tree.

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bastian Blank] > You know that parts of the config settings are only supported in the > legacy-format? Nope. What parts is that? > Is there documentation how to import new schemas in the new config > tree? I found http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ch6/slapd-config.html>. > Also modification ar

Bug#494928: ITP: sflphone -- SIP and IAX2 compatible VoIP phone

2008-08-12 Thread Francois Marier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francois Marier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sflphone Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Savoir-faire Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.sflphone.org * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: feature: to add explanations of recommendations and suggestions dependencies

2008-08-12 Thread Shachar Or
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 22:57, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Shachar Or [Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:36:35 +0300]: > > I am not suggesting this data will be put in with the package's > > description, > > Why not? I think (briefly) explaining some of the most relevant > recommends and suggests is a perfect use

Re: feature: to add explanations of recommendations and suggestions dependencies

2008-08-12 Thread Felipe Sateler
Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:02:02PM -0400, Felipe Sateler a écrit : >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> Could they be added as XB-Comment:? I use XS-Comment and it appears in the >> dsc, I don't know if XB-* appear in the deb or elsewhere. > > Hi Felipe, > > The answer i

Re: feature: to add explanations of recommendations and suggestions dependencies

2008-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:02:02PM -0400, Felipe Sateler a écrit : > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Could they be added as XB-Comment:? I use XS-Comment and it appears in the > dsc, > I don't know if XB-* appear in the deb or elsewhere. Hi Felipe, The answer is only in the sources for the mome

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-12 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > EVL>>> The idea behind libpam-tmpdir is that it creates a subdirectory of /tmp > EVL>>> that is only accessible by that user, and then sets TMPDIR and other > EVL>>> variables to that. Hence, it doesn't matter nearly as much if you > EVL>>> create a non-random filename,

DebianPython/NewPolicy

2008-08-12 Thread Henrik Stokseth
Seems this wasn't strictly necessary according to pythonsupport's docs: *** You don't need X[BS]-Python-Version fields. You don't need *** *** debian/pycompat. You don't need to call dh_python after*** *** dh_pysupport. Just remove all of these.*** However python-central st

Re: Bug#494863: ITP: transset-df -- manager for on-the-fly transparency changing in X

2008-08-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Daniel Moerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > transset-df is a modified version of xorg's transset and requires compositing > to function. Might be a good idea to encourage transset-df upstream to join the upstream xorg project and commit his changes there. -- by

Re: feature: to add explanations of recommendations and suggestions dependencies

2008-08-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Shachar Or [Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:36:35 +0300]: > I am not suggesting this data will be put in with the package's description, Why not? I think (briefly) explaining some of the most relevant recommends and suggests is a perfect use of the description space. And if more verbosity is needed, that

Bug#494868: ITP: python-keyczar -- cryptographic toolkit for python

2008-08-12 Thread Eric Evans
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-keyczar Version : 05b Upstream Author : Arkajit Dey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/keyczar/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Python D

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-12 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
report for etch: http://uvw.ru/report.etch.txt 107 packages :( On 18:23 Tue 12 Aug , Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: TDEO> The script in attach looks through a mirror of a specified distributive TDEO> and makes a search of '>\s*/tmp/' and 'tee [^|]*/tmp/' constructions. TDEO> It finds less err

Bug#494863: ITP: transset-df -- manager for on-the-fly transparency changing in X

2008-08-12 Thread Daniel Moerner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Moerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: transset-df Version : 6 Upstream Author : Daniel Forchheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.forchheimer.se/transset-df/ License : 'Use however you want. I can't

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:35:30PM -0300, Steve Langasek wrote: > It is possible; I'm currently awaiting feedback from the OpenLDAP > comaintainers before we enable it. You know that parts of the config settings are only supported in the legacy-format? Is there documentation how to import new sche

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 05:21:26PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Soren Hansen] > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:48:29AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >> I really wish there was some organized way for packages to > >> automatically add schemas and settings to the OpenLDAP server > >> con

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Soren Hansen] > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:48:29AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> I really wish there was some organized way for packages to >> automatically add schemas and settings to the OpenLDAP server >> configuration, at install time. > > The new cn=config backend in recent OpenLDAP v

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-12 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
EVL>>> The idea behind libpam-tmpdir is that it creates a subdirectory of /tmp EVL>>> that is only accessible by that user, and then sets TMPDIR and other EVL>>> variables to that. Hence, it doesn't matter nearly as much if you EVL>>> create a non-random filename, because nobody but you can access

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: A while ago, the use of libpam-tmpdir was suggested in order to mitigate some of these attacks. It would be nice to see it in use by default, some day. Obviously there will always be some programs that don't look at the TMPDIR environment variable

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-12 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
The script in attach looks through a mirror of a specified distributive and makes a search of '>\s*/tmp/' and 'tee [^|]*/tmp/' constructions. It finds less errors then I've found earlier however the results of its work are more accurate. The script looks through all the files of packages marked

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-12 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
>>> A while ago, the use of libpam-tmpdir was suggested in order to mitigate >>> some of these attacks. It would be nice to see it in use by default, some >>> day. >> >>> Obviously there will always be some programs that don't look at the >>> TMPDIR environment variable and directly use /tmp. >> w

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-12 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:38:07AM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: SM> A while ago, the use of libpam-tmpdir was suggested in order to mitigate SM> some of these attacks. It would be nice to see it in use by default, some SM> day. SM> Obviously there will always be some programs that don't look

Bug#494796: ITP: life -- LIbrary for the Finite Element method

2008-08-12 Thread Christophe Prud'homme
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: life Version: 0.9.8 Upstream Author: Christophe Prud'homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.prudhomm.org/life License: LGPL De

Re: projectb users - we want you

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Casadevall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not a DD so I can't add myself to the list; I'd like to see better support for importing dsc files and binaries into the archive (aka to importing an existing archives (import-archive now works though after I gave it a lobotomy). Database wise, t