Fwd: [ADVISORY] Timing Attack on OpenSSL

2003-03-18 Thread leppo
Hi, this seems to be a new issue aside the known timing attack from Feb. 19th. Anybody to confirm this? Regards, Leppo -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: [ADVISORY] Timing Attack on OpenSSL Date: Montag, 17. März 2003 09:47 From: Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bugtraq

ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Giacomo Mulas
Alan Cox apparently just made public a vulnerability in the stock kernel which would permit a local user to gain root privileges (see e.g. Linux Today, LWN, the LK mailing list...). Is a patched source package in the making already or should we humble users, in the meantime, take the

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Sebastien Chaumat
Le mar 18/03/2003 à 13:04, Giacomo Mulas a écrit : On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Giacomo Mulas wrote: Alan Cox apparently just made public a vulnerability in the stock kernel which would permit a local user to gain root privileges (see e.g. Linux Today, LWN, the LK mailing list...). Is a

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
His announcement is Slashdotted, and I'm seeing no notice of which versions are affected! I'm running 2.4.18 on all my Debian servers, please tell me what's going on. --On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:04 PM +0100 Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Cox apparently just made

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Mark Janssen
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 21:40, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: His announcement is Slashdotted, and I'm seeing no notice of which versions are affected! I'm running 2.4.18 on all my Debian servers, please tell me what's going on. Here's a cut and paste from Lwn.net :) Ptrace

Current OpenSSL vulnerability (CAN-2003-0147)

2003-03-18 Thread Timm Gleason
I have not seen any mention of this on this list. Is the current version (0.9.6c-2.woody.2) vulnerable to this current RSA issue? Tuesday, March 18 2003 -- | When a religion is good, I conceive Timm Gleason| it will support itself; and when it

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Steve Meyer
You could try this link http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.2/0226.html but I am not sure if it meets your criteria of authoritive. From: Phillip Hofmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ptrace vulnerability? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:09:10 -0500

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2003-03-18 Thread Steve Alley
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Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Steve Meyer
Correct me if I am wrong but is the ptrace vulnerability not a fairly old one. By old I mean like a couple of years. Or is this a completely different ptrace vulnerability. I know there was info about a ptrace vulnerability at http://packetstormsecurity.com including the working exploit

OT: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

2003-03-18 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi A friend just asked me this question and I got curious. say I'm equipped with a linux laptop and some knowledge, I can walk into a company that uses NIS, find out the settings (NISDOMAIN, free ip address, etc...) and join their domain. now I can login as root on my computer, su to any user

Re: OT: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

2003-03-18 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 04:13 pm, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi Hello, A friend just asked me this question and I got curious. say I'm equipped with a linux laptop and some knowledge, I can walk into a company that uses NIS, find out the settings (NISDOMAIN, free ip address, etc...) and join

Re: OT: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

2003-03-18 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Haim Ashkenazi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): A friend just asked me this question and I got curious. say I'm equipped with a linux laptop and some knowledge, I can walk into a company that uses NIS, find out the settings (NISDOMAIN, free ip address, etc...) and join their domain. now I can

RE: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

2003-03-18 Thread Jones, Steven
yes NIS+ is a bit better, but basically its in-adequate security wise. It should not be considered for a new system/network IMHO. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Haim Ashkenazi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 19 March 2003 12:30 To: Debian Security Subject: OT: Is

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread xbud
New one. The attached module seems to block the currently circulating exploit, I didn't write it so don't email me if it breaks your system. On Tuesday 18 March 2003 17:39, Steve Meyer wrote: Correct me if I am wrong but is the ptrace vulnerability not a fairly old one. By old I mean like a

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Steve Meyer
Does anyone know the ETA of the official patch? _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Fwd: [ADVISORY] Timing Attack on OpenSSL

2003-03-18 Thread leppo
Hi, this seems to be a new issue aside the known timing attack from Feb. 19th. Anybody to confirm this? Regards, Leppo -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: [ADVISORY] Timing Attack on OpenSSL Date: Montag, 17. März 2003 09:47 From: Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bugtraq

ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Giacomo Mulas
Alan Cox apparently just made public a vulnerability in the stock kernel which would permit a local user to gain root privileges (see e.g. Linux Today, LWN, the LK mailing list...). Is a patched source package in the making already or should we humble users, in the meantime, take the

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Giacomo Mulas wrote: Alan Cox apparently just made public a vulnerability in the stock kernel which would permit a local user to gain root privileges (see e.g. Linux Today, LWN, the LK mailing list...). Is a patched source package in the making already or should we

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Sebastien Chaumat
Le mar 18/03/2003 à 13:04, Giacomo Mulas a écrit : On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Giacomo Mulas wrote: Alan Cox apparently just made public a vulnerability in the stock kernel which would permit a local user to gain root privileges (see e.g. Linux Today, LWN, the LK mailing list...). Is a

AW: Traffic monitoring

2003-03-18 Thread debian-security
check out flowscan http://www.caida.org/tools/utilities/flowscan/ it gets close to what you want, assuming all the traffic is passing through a cisco router. Something like this for Linux would bei really cool ! Nik

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
His announcement is Slashdotted, and I'm seeing no notice of which versions are affected! I'm running 2.4.18 on all my Debian servers, please tell me what's going on. --On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:04 PM +0100 Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Cox apparently just made

Re: [despammed] Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Ed McMan
Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 3:40:40 PM, Jason Rashaad Jackson (Jason) wrote: Jason His announcement is Slashdotted, and I'm seeing no notice of which versions Jason are affected! I'm running 2.4.18 on all my Debian servers, please tell me Jason what's going on.

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Mark Janssen
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 21:40, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: His announcement is Slashdotted, and I'm seeing no notice of which versions are affected! I'm running 2.4.18 on all my Debian servers, please tell me what's going on. Here's a cut and paste from Lwn.net :) Ptrace

Re: AW: Traffic monitoring

2003-03-18 Thread J.J. van Gorkum
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 16:04, debian-security wrote: check out flowscan http://www.caida.org/tools/utilities/flowscan/ it gets close to what you want, assuming all the traffic is passing through a cisco router. A better choice (IMHO) would be flow-tools at

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
I usually make it a habit of only applying patches that come from seemingly authoritive sites. Could anyone make a reference to an authoritive site that would contain this patch? I have been snooping around kernel.org with no success... -- Phil PGP/GPG Key: http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/

Current OpenSSL vulnerability (CAN-2003-0147)

2003-03-18 Thread Timm Gleason
I have not seen any mention of this on this list. Is the current version (0.9.6c-2.woody.2) vulnerable to this current RSA issue? Tuesday, March 18 2003 -- | When a religion is good, I conceive Timm Gleason| it will support itself; and when it

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Steve Meyer
You could try this link http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.2/0226.html but I am not sure if it meets your criteria of authoritive. From: Phillip Hofmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-security@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ptrace vulnerability? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003

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2003-03-18 Thread Steve Alley
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Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread Steve Meyer
Correct me if I am wrong but is the ptrace vulnerability not a fairly old one. By old I mean like a couple of years. Or is this a completely different ptrace vulnerability. I know there was info about a ptrace vulnerability at http://packetstormsecurity.com including the working exploit

Re: OT: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

2003-03-18 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Haim Ashkenazi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): A friend just asked me this question and I got curious. say I'm equipped with a linux laptop and some knowledge, I can walk into a company that uses NIS, find out the settings (NISDOMAIN, free ip address, etc...) and join their domain. now I can

Re: ptrace vulnerability?

2003-03-18 Thread xbud
New one. The attached module seems to block the currently circulating exploit, I didn't write it so don't email me if it breaks your system. On Tuesday 18 March 2003 17:39, Steve Meyer wrote: Correct me if I am wrong but is the ptrace vulnerability not a fairly old one. By old I mean like a