Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 12 August 2021 11:38 +05, Andrey Rahmatullin: >> >> I just ran across this article >> >> https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/package_managers_privesc/ I tested >> >> the attacks on Debian 11 and they work successfully giving me a root >> >> shell prompt. >> > I don't think calling this "privile

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 01:25:06AM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On Thu, 2021-08-12 at 11:19 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 01:12:37AM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > > > Would you agree that there is an issue with

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 08:32:14AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > >> I just ran across this article > >> https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/package_managers_privesc/ I tested > >> the attacks on Debian 11 and they work successfully giving me a root > >> shell prompt. > > I don't think calling this

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 12 August 2021 10:39 +05, Andrey Rahmatullin: >> I just ran across this article >> https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/package_managers_privesc/ I tested >> the attacks on Debian 11 and they work successfully giving me a root >> shell prompt. > I don't think calling this "privilege escalation"

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Brian Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 2021-08-12 at 11:19 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 01:12:37AM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > > Would you agree that there is an issue with sudo access that is > > enabled > > by default on most Debian and Debian-ba

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 01:17:03AM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > > > Thank you for bringing this to everyone's attention. This are very > > > real > > > vulnerabilities. > > How are they vulnerabilities? > They are vulnerabilities because the user is susceptible to this kind of > attack by defaul

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 01:12:37AM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > Would you agree that there is an issue with sudo access that is enabled > by default on most Debian and Debian-based distributions? The bug may > not be in apt, but it definitely lives somewhere. Do you think "sudo access" itself is

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Brian Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 2021-08-12 at 10:44 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:55:44PM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > > Thank you for bringing this to everyone's attention. This are very > > real > > vulnerabilities. > How are they vulner

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Brian Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 2021-08-12 at 07:38 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Timothy M Butterworth: > > All, > > > > I just ran across this article > > https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/package_managers_privesc/ I > > tested > > the attacks on Debian 11 and they wor

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:55:44PM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > Thank you for bringing this to everyone's attention. This are very real > vulnerabilities. How are they vulnerabilities? > NPM has similar issues with stopping malicious packages from being > published to the FTP server. That's no

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 11:30:27PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I just ran across this article > https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/package_managers_privesc/ I tested > the attacks on Debian 11 and they work successfully giving me a root > shell prompt. I don't think calling this "privile

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Timothy M Butterworth: > All, > > I just ran across this article > https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/package_managers_privesc/ I tested > the attacks on Debian 11 and they work successfully giving me a root > shell prompt. > > Tim > Hi Tim, All of the attacks presented assumes that the local

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 3:22 AM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Debian is missing KDE's Amarok music manager. Amarok was removed as it required the obsolete Qt 4 library. Now that upstream has finally ported it to Qt5, it could be reintroduced to Debian. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/amarok http

Re: Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Brian Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Wed, 2021-08-11 at 23:30 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > All, > > I just ran across this article > https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/package_managers_privesc/ I tested > the attacks on Debian 11 and they work successfully giving me a root

Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, I just ran across this article https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/package_managers_privesc/ I tested the attacks on Debian 11 and they work successfully giving me a root shell prompt. Tim

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
I am fine with Debian's release cycle but It would be nice to see more packages. For example Debian is missing KDE's Amarok music manager. I am happy to see Debian 11 gained KDE Elisa music manager. I am sad to see that VirtualBox is not available on Debian 11. I had to jerry-rig it using the Ubunt

Re: Code

2021-08-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 12:24 PM Xavier wrote: > Second: a lot of package have also their public source repo. See > https://tracker.debian.org and follow "VCS" links to access to > git/svn/... repo. Aside from the VCS links on packages that use a VCS, the package tracker also links to sources.de

Re: Gitlab support for Debian repositories (Was: Regarding the new "Debian User Repository")

2021-08-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Wouter, sorry for the late reply but I think it's still relevant... (just thus rather leaving almost full quote as context.) On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 11:25:26AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 12:31:10PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 02:09:36PM

Re: Code

2021-08-11 Thread Wookey
On 2021-08-11 14:08 +0200, Hans wrote: > And best: It is all GPL licensed, It's all free software, but many licences are used, not just the GPL. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 04:08:13PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > I think we have more systemic issues. I am quite impressed how Nix/NixOS > is able to pull so many packages and modules with so few people. But > they use only one workflow, one way to package, one init system, etc. > Looking at Arch

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 11 August 2021 11:27 +02, Steffen Möller: > I have no exact idea what to change, though. A rolling Debian would be > cool, yes, but also a bit late when compared with environments that > Conda offers or the ease that comes with multiple installations of conda > to e.g. avoid name conflicts. If

Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications

2021-08-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 03:19:10PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: >Bastien Roucariès wrote: >> I am going to compile shell.efi from source. >> >> I whish to install to something stable, but I need an arch triplet in order >> to >> put in a multiarch (like) location. >> >> I suppose that it will be

Re: Code

2021-08-11 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 11. August 2021, 13:34:27 CEST schrieb Horler, Johannes: Hi Johannes, every code of every debian package in debian/main is downloadable from the repo. You also get all needed stuff for the most used compiler and interpereter languages, C, python, perl, lua, java, whatever you want

Re: Code

2021-08-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 11:34:27AM +, Horler, Johannes wrote: > Dear Debian Team, > > > hopefully I am writing this to the right email address. (In case I am > not, I would be happy about being refered.) Recently I got interested in > operating systems. Now I want to try to experiment with mo

Re: Code

2021-08-11 Thread Kyle Edwards
On 8/11/21 7:34 AM, Horler, Johannes wrote: Dear Debian Team, hopefully I am writing this to the right email address. (In case I am not, I would be happy about being refered.) Recently I got interested in operating systems. Now I want to try to experiment with modifying one. Is the complet

Re: Code

2021-08-11 Thread Xavier
Le 11/08/2021 à 13:34, Horler, Johannes a écrit : > Dear Debian Team, > > > hopefully I am writing this to the right email address. (In case I am > not, I would be happy about being refered.) Recently I got interested in > operating systems. Now I want to try to experiment with modifying one. >

Code

2021-08-11 Thread Horler, Johannes
Dear Debian Team, hopefully I am writing this to the right email address. (In case I am not, I would be happy about being refered.) Recently I got interested in operating systems. Now I want to try to experiment with modifying one. Is the complete source code of any Debian Version available so

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-11 Thread Steffen Möller
On 11.08.21 08:46, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 01:09:29 -0400, Calum McConnell wrote: On Wed, 2021-08-11 at 00:51 +, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 5:38 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: "So, Arch Linux, one of the main reasons, there's a couple, but the main reason is t

Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications

2021-08-11 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 15:19:10 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Bastien Roucariès wrote: > > I suppose that [EFI] will be x86_64-efi-none (or maybe x86_64-windows-efi > > ) and > > i686-uefi-none ? It's certainly not x86_64-windows-efi. The EFI environment isn't Windows (even though it borrows