[SECURITY] [DSA-196-1] New BIND packages fix several vulnerabilities

2002-11-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 196-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Daniel Jacobowitz November 14th, 2002

wrong permissions of /usr/bin/cdrecord

2002-11-14 Thread Torsten Werner
Hello, I became aware of bug #164283 that seems to me security related and -- even worse -- affects woody. I have not been able to exploit it easily (by burning /etc/shadow to a CD or something like that) but it really should be fixed IMHO. The attached patch should fix woody's package. Torsten

Re: unsubscribe

2002-11-14 Thread Marcel Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Instead of cursing do this here as noted in almost every mail closing! To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] RTFM Elvedin T schrieb: | How long does it take to unsubscribe? I

recommendable security lists?

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi all. One question I think that is not very off topic: what mailinglists, besides bugtraq, would you recommend for someone who wants to keep track of current security problems? My interest is mainly in security issues with wireless lan equipment (such as the two security wholes in current

Re: spam

2002-11-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 11:26 11/11/02 -0800 hat Rich Rudnick geschrieben: I try to block on character sets: ie., ^Content-Type.*charset.*[gG][bB]2312 This catches quite a few spams I can't read. I do it too and it filters around 70% of all spam mail MIchelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: I will not be a part of this list anymore

2002-11-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
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2002-11-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
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Re: Latest libpcap tcpdump sources from tcpdump.org contain atrojan

2002-11-14 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 20:15, Lupe Christoph wrote: Please read http://www.hlug.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=6mode=threadorder=0thold=0 Is Debian affected? If I read this (and the CERT advisory) correctly, the trojan only triggers at compile time, so I don't think

VPN question

2002-11-14 Thread Iñaki Martínez
HI I must create a VPN between an external company and a server behind my firewall. Company---its_routerInternet---my_firewall-server Workers from this company ONLY MUST have access to the server in the VPN. Perhaps some of them must have access to internet only perhaps..

Re: VPN question

2002-11-14 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:43:48PM +0100, Iñaki Martínez wrote: I must create a VPN between an external company and a server behind my firewall. Company---its_routerInternet---my_firewall-server * How to implement this VPN??? I would use IPSEC, but there are other solutions:

libpam-ldap in stable

2002-11-14 Thread Kris Amy
has this bug/exploit been fixed for debian stable(woody)? http://neworder.box.sk/showme.php3?id=7314 -- Kris Amy System Administrator, UCB Australia +---+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Phone: +61 411 202 258| | Msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ICQ: 38459156

Re: Latest libpcap tcpdump sources from tcpdump.org contain a trojan

2002-11-14 Thread Steve Suehring
You are correct insofar as it triggers at compile time for libpcap, the configure script to be exact. I grabbed a copy of the trojan'ed libpcap and compiled it in a sandbox machine. You can do a strings of the compiled libpcap.a and grep for 1963. Doing so yields these results:

Re: Latest libpcap tcpdump sources from tcpdump.org contain atrojan

2002-11-14 Thread Tim Haynes
Steve Suehring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are correct insofar as it triggers at compile time for libpcap, the configure script to be exact. I grabbed a copy of the trojan'ed libpcap and compiled it in a sandbox machine. You can do a strings of the compiled libpcap.a and grep for 1963.

Fwd: Apache Security Vulnerabilities on IRIX

2002-11-14 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
I assume we are aware of this? Apache has been having a lot of problems lately. ALMOST as bad as IIS... - Forwarded message from SGI Security Coordinator [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: SGI Security Coordinator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Apache Security Vulnerabilities on IRIX To: [EMAIL

Beware of sid (today at least)

2002-11-14 Thread Dale Amon
Here's a warning for all who live on the wild side: Sid updates as of this moment in time have a dangerous problem. They are de-installing a lib right out from under dselect and apt. apt-config: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No

Re: Bind issues

2002-11-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:28:26PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: 1. apt-get source bind 2. wget the pacth file from www.isc.org 3. apply the patch 4. dpkg-buildpackage 5. dpkg -i bind*.deb That will conceivably work *now*. However, news of the vulnerability was announced before the patches

Re: VPN question

2002-11-14 Thread Jeff
Iñaki Martínez, 2002-Nov-14 12:43 +0100: HI I must create a VPN between an external company and a server behind my firewall. Company---its_routerInternet---my_firewall-server Workers from this company ONLY MUST have access to the server in the VPN. Perhaps some of

Re: Beware of sid (today at least)

2002-11-14 Thread Teun Vink
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:53, Dale Amon wrote: Here's a warning for all who live on the wild side: Sid updates as of this moment in time have a dangerous problem. They are de-installing a lib right out from under dselect and apt. apt-config: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: Beware of sid (today at least)

2002-11-14 Thread Laurent Luyckx
A simple workaround (in case of) it's to make a symlink to the other library... ln -s libstdc++libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 (assuming that you're on /usr/lib) On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:53, Dale Amon wrote: Here's a warning for all who live on the wild side: Sid updates as of this

Re: VPN question

2002-11-14 Thread Maik M8acter backward
You can also try openvpn (http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/). On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:43:48 +0100 I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI I must create a VPN between an external company and a server behind my firewall. Company---its_routerInternet---my_firewall-server Workers

Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump

2002-11-14 Thread Domonkos Czinke
FYI Members of The Houston Linux Users Group discovered that the newest sources of libpcap and tcpdump available from tcpdump.org were contaminated with trojan code. HLUG has notified the maintainers of tcpdump.org. Details: The trojan contains modifications to the configure script and

AIDE output after unclean shutdown

2002-11-14 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi folks! I'm wondering if you can offer me some advice like you so kindly have a couple of times in the past. This morning, my cocoon2 installation took off unexpectedly, exhausting all the resources of the box (which isn't too big...). I could connect to all the open ports, but nothing

Re: AIDE output after unclean shutdown

2002-11-14 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 at 09:26:10PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: File: /lib/modules/2.4.19/modules.dep Mtime: 2002-11-04 21:16:56 , 2002-11-14 15:18:29 Ctime: 2002-11-04 21:16:56 , 2002-11-14 15:18:29 These module files usually get re-writter with every

Re: Fwd: Apache Security Vulnerabilities on IRIX

2002-11-14 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:41:12AM -0500, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: Apache has been having a lot of problems lately. ALMOST as bad as IIS... [useful part of message removed :] My impression is that most of the problems found these days are cross-site scripting, or at the worst, local

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 195-1] New Apache-Perl packages fix several vulnerabilities

2002-11-14 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Raymond Wood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The question is obviously an unpopular one :) Well, I think it got old. Moreover, and more to the point, FAQed. Even though Sid is officially not supported by the security team, still 99 times out of a hundred, a patch or new version will appear in

Re: Bind issues

2002-11-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:45:19PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: Any word from the security team on what's going on with potato's bind? Both potato and woody are vulnerable. Fixes are on there way, but disclosure of this vulnerability was very badly organized (not by the security team), and the

Snort alert log

2002-11-14 Thread Kristof Goossens
Hello, This morning I've read the following in my snort.alert log: [**] [116:46:1] (snort_decoder) WARNING: TCP Data Offset is less than 5! [**] 11/13-21:21:31.736604 200.207.87.24:0 - 80.84.232.115:0 TCP TTL:117 TOS:0x0 ID:19244 IpLen:20 DgmLen:40 ***F Seq: 0x3A6D74 Ack: 0x110 Win:

Re: Bind issues

2002-11-14 Thread Patrick Hsieh
On Thursday 14 November 2002 14:24, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:45:19PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: Any word from the security team on what's going on with potato's bind? Both potato and woody are vulnerable. Fixes are on there way, but disclosure of this

wrong permissions of /usr/bin/cdrecord

2002-11-14 Thread Torsten Werner
Hello, I became aware of bug #164283 that seems to me security related and -- even worse -- affects woody. I have not been able to exploit it easily (by burning /etc/shadow to a CD or something like that) but it really should be fixed IMHO. The attached patch should fix woody's package. Torsten

Re: unsubscribe

2002-11-14 Thread Marcel Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Instead of cursing do this here as noted in almost every mail closing! To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] RTFM Elvedin T schrieb: | How long does it take to unsubscribe? I

recommendable security lists?

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi all. One question I think that is not very off topic: what mailinglists, besides bugtraq, would you recommend for someone who wants to keep track of current security problems? My interest is mainly in security issues with wireless lan equipment (such as the two security wholes in current

Re: spam

2002-11-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 11:26 11/11/02 -0800 hat Rich Rudnick geschrieben: I try to block on character sets: ie., ^Content-Type.*charset.*[gG][bB]2312 This catches quite a few spams I can't read. I do it too and it filters around 70% of all spam mail MIchelle

Re: I will not be a part of this list anymore

2002-11-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
What about readin the Mail-Headers or the Footer of each Message ??? List-Post: mailto:debian-security@lists.debian.org List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Am 17:42 10/11/02 +0100 hat Maria Larsson geschrieben:

Re: unsubscribe

2002-11-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
What about the mail-Headers ??? List-Post: mailto:debian-security@lists.debian.org List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list Am 20:13 12/11/02 +0100 hat Ali MECHIRI geschrieben: Attachment Converted:

Re: Latest libpcap tcpdump sources from tcpdump.org contain a trojan

2002-11-14 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 20:15, Lupe Christoph wrote: Please read http://www.hlug.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=6mode=threadorder=0thold=0 Is Debian affected? If I read this (and the CERT advisory) correctly, the trojan only triggers at compile time, so I don't think

Re: VPN question

2002-11-14 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:43:48PM +0100, Iñaki Martínez wrote: I must create a VPN between an external company and a server behind my firewall. Company---its_routerInternet---my_firewall-server * How to implement this VPN??? I would use IPSEC, but there are other solutions:

libpam-ldap in stable

2002-11-14 Thread Kris Amy
has this bug/exploit been fixed for debian stable(woody)? http://neworder.box.sk/showme.php3?id=7314 -- Kris Amy System Administrator, UCB Australia +---+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Phone: +61 411 202 258| | Msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ICQ: 38459156

Re: Latest libpcap tcpdump sources from tcpdump.org contain a trojan

2002-11-14 Thread Steve Suehring
You are correct insofar as it triggers at compile time for libpcap, the configure script to be exact. I grabbed a copy of the trojan'ed libpcap and compiled it in a sandbox machine. You can do a strings of the compiled libpcap.a and grep for 1963. Doing so yields these results:

Re: Latest libpcap tcpdump sources from tcpdump.org contain a trojan

2002-11-14 Thread Tim Haynes
Steve Suehring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are correct insofar as it triggers at compile time for libpcap, the configure script to be exact. I grabbed a copy of the trojan'ed libpcap and compiled it in a sandbox machine. You can do a strings of the compiled libpcap.a and grep for 1963.

Fwd: Apache Security Vulnerabilities on IRIX

2002-11-14 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
I assume we are aware of this? Apache has been having a lot of problems lately. ALMOST as bad as IIS... - Forwarded message from SGI Security Coordinator [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: SGI Security Coordinator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Apache Security Vulnerabilities on IRIX To: [EMAIL

Beware of sid (today at least)

2002-11-14 Thread Dale Amon
Here's a warning for all who live on the wild side: Sid updates as of this moment in time have a dangerous problem. They are de-installing a lib right out from under dselect and apt. apt-config: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No

Re: Bind issues

2002-11-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:28:26PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: 1. apt-get source bind 2. wget the pacth file from www.isc.org 3. apply the patch 4. dpkg-buildpackage 5. dpkg -i bind*.deb That will conceivably work *now*. However, news of the vulnerability was announced before the patches

Re: VPN question

2002-11-14 Thread Jeff
Iñaki Martínez, 2002-Nov-14 12:43 +0100: HI I must create a VPN between an external company and a server behind my firewall. Company---its_routerInternet---my_firewall-server Workers from this company ONLY MUST have access to the server in the VPN. Perhaps some of

Re: Beware of sid (today at least)

2002-11-14 Thread Teun Vink
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:53, Dale Amon wrote: Here's a warning for all who live on the wild side: Sid updates as of this moment in time have a dangerous problem. They are de-installing a lib right out from under dselect and apt. apt-config: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: Beware of sid (today at least)

2002-11-14 Thread Laurent Luyckx
A simple workaround (in case of) it's to make a symlink to the other library... ln -s libstdc++libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 (assuming that you're on /usr/lib) On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:53, Dale Amon wrote: Here's a warning for all who live on the wild side: Sid updates as of this

Re: VPN question

2002-11-14 Thread Maik M8acter backward
You can also try openvpn (http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/). On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:43:48 +0100 I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI I must create a VPN between an external company and a server behind my firewall. Company---its_routerInternet---my_firewall-server Workers

Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump

2002-11-14 Thread Domonkos Czinke
FYI Members of The Houston Linux Users Group discovered that the newest sources of libpcap and tcpdump available from tcpdump.org were contaminated with trojan code. HLUG has notified the maintainers of tcpdump.org. Details: The trojan contains modifications to the configure script and

AIDE output after unclean shutdown

2002-11-14 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi folks! I'm wondering if you can offer me some advice like you so kindly have a couple of times in the past. This morning, my cocoon2 installation took off unexpectedly, exhausting all the resources of the box (which isn't too big...). I could connect to all the open ports, but nothing

Re: AIDE output after unclean shutdown

2002-11-14 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 at 09:26:10PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: File: /lib/modules/2.4.19/modules.dep Mtime: 2002-11-04 21:16:56 , 2002-11-14 15:18:29 Ctime: 2002-11-04 21:16:56 , 2002-11-14 15:18:29 These module files usually get re-writter with every

Re: Fwd: Apache Security Vulnerabilities on IRIX

2002-11-14 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:41:12AM -0500, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: Apache has been having a lot of problems lately. ALMOST as bad as IIS... [useful part of message removed :] My impression is that most of the problems found these days are cross-site scripting, or at the worst, local