[SECURITY] [DSA 164-1] New cacti package fixes arbitrary code execution

2002-09-10 Thread Martin Schulze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 164-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze September 10th, 2002

suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi all. While digging through the error.log of my apache I found two lines that seem to hint toward a new (?) worm. I saw the first one some days ago, too: [Sat Aug 31 21:03:49 2002] [error] [client 64.152.12.2] request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string: CONNECT

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Anne Carasik
Sounds like Code Red. We get a lot of these too, and the Microsoft attacks don't do much to an Apache server :) -Anne This one time, Michael Renzmann wrote: Hi all. While digging through the error.log of my apache I found two lines that seem to hint toward a new (?) worm. I saw the first

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi Anne. Anne Carasik wrote: Sounds like Code Red. We get a lot of these too, and the Microsoft attacks don't do much to an Apache server :) Ok, thanks for the info. I guess I didn't saw this one by now because Code Red seems to die more and more, right? :) Bye, Mike

Re: [OT] AW: Printing ?

2002-09-10 Thread Ralf Dreibrodt
Hi, Sorry i know this is off topic but dose anyone know where theres a good HOW-TO on Seting up SAMBA as a print server ?? there is an online book from oreilly: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/index.html Viele Gruesse Ralf Dreibrodt -- Mesos Telefon 49 221

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Andreas Syksa
Hello Debians, - Original Message - From: Michael Renzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-security@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:35 AM Subject: suspicious apache log entries [Sat Aug 31 21:03:49 2002] [error] [client 64.152.12.2] request failed: erroneous

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi Andreas. Andreas Syksa wrote: I've seen tons of ../script/ and ../cmd.exe's as I've got several machines with fixed ips. I also received quite a lot of those requests, although our server is not official by now, has no domain name (besides an work-around solution using dyndns during the

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael Renzmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020910 02:55]: Phillip Hofmeister stated that one could use the Nimda backdoor on the server that connects our server to setup a warning message on the attacking computer's desktop. I think this is a great idea, but I have not been able to track down

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. Vineet Kumar wrote: Phillip Hofmeister stated that one could use the Nimda backdoor on the server that connects our server to setup a warning message on the attacking computer's desktop. If you do, be prepared to go to jail... For what reason? For telling stupid webserver

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael Renzmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020910 03:12]: Hi. Vineet Kumar wrote: Phillip Hofmeister stated that one could use the Nimda backdoor on the server that connects our server to setup a warning message on the attacking computer's desktop. If you do, be prepared to go to jail...

AW: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Marcel Weber
Hi Phillip Hofmeister is right. This tool exists. We used this at our companies network (a bigger one, some 100'000 users ;-). All those Frontpage or I don't know what the hell they're using users with iis and nimda on it, were difficult to track down. Of course we tried to warn them before

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Doug Winter
On Tue 10 Sep Marcel Weber wrote: So a little program called Silver bullet got developed. I think it run even on Linux. When a backdoored server tried to contact the silver bullet server, it got shot down by this script using nimda's backdoor. I window popped up on the attacking machine and

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Jamie Heilman
[Sat Aug 31 21:03:49 2002] [error] [client 64.152.12.2] request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string: CONNECT mailb.microsoft.com:25 / HTTP/1.0 open proxy probe, standard Internet crapola, http://www.monkeys.com/security/proxies/

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Jamie Heilman
Jamie Heilman wrote: [Sat Aug 31 21:03:49 2002] [error] [client 64.152.12.2] request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string: CONNECT mailb.microsoft.com:25 / HTTP/1.0 open proxy probe, standard Internet crapola, http://www.monkeys.com/security/proxies/ Hmm, ok it appears

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Erik Rossen
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 03:28:42AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Michael Renzmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020910 03:12]: Hi. Vineet Kumar wrote: Phillip Hofmeister stated that one could use the Nimda backdoor on the server that connects our server to setup a warning message on the

Re: AW: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi Marcel. Marcel Weber wrote: Why not introduce an official Internet Security Team that officially has the right to do such things. It would be for the good of the net! They could be a part of the ICANN or UNO or whoever. I don't think this would be successful. It's a great idea, no doubt

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. Doug Winter wrote: It claimed that the HTTP libraries used by Nimda and Code Red were generic, and could be fooled by sending a redirect response like: Location: http://127.0.0.1/ Nice idea. Would it be enough to redirect them to the localhost-ip, or should the URI of the original

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Carlos Ollero Serrano
Hello! I have done a script against nimda and other undesiderable access to my server, http://ainulindale.homeunix.org/~carlos/scripts/cortafuegos/ Whath do you think about that? best regards: Carlos Has anyone seen some Anti-Nimda/Code Red beside

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Erik Rossen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Imagine instead a car that is always unlocked and is used nightly by hooligans when they go joy-riding. That's why leaving a car unlocked is illegal in Germany. On the other hand, you still need the key to start it and a hooligan wouldn't mind braking

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Erik Rossen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020910 04:51]: On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 03:28:42AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: As the law is concerned, this is like telling people they've left their front door unlocked by inviting yourself in and taking a dump on their couch. It's not yours, and you have

Re: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 12:43:10PM +0300, Marcel Weber wrote: Well, but you're right: This is a beautyful tool on a companies network. But if used on the internet, there could be legal issues. Why not introduce an official Internet Security Team that officially has the right to do such things.

RE: suspicious apache log entries

2002-09-10 Thread Daniel J. Rychlik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'nod', agreed Geoff. Sincerely, Daniel J. Rychlik Money does not make the world go round , Gravity does . - -Original Message- From: Geoff Crompton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Crompton Sent: Tuesday, September 10,

Re: [OT] AW: Printing ?

2002-09-10 Thread Marcel Welschbillig
Thanks to those who replied. I now have somewhere to start :) Marcel On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 16:16, Ralf Dreibrodt wrote: Hi, Sorry i know this is off topic but dose anyone know where theres a good HOW-TO on Seting up SAMBA as a print server ?? there is an online book from oreilly:

Postgres buffer overflow in stable .

2002-09-10 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
Hello all, The bug 155419 opened 37 days old point to a serious security issue with postgres as i can lead to DOS from local users or worst, make non-serious SQL / perl / php bugs worst (from non exploitable to DOS capable). As far as i can see, Oliver tried to upload 7.2.2-X in woody and i