[SECURITY] [DSA 293-1] New kdelibs packages fix arbitrary command execution

2003-04-23 Thread Martin Schulze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 293-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 23rd, 2003

[SECURITY] [DSA 294-1] New gkrellm-newsticker packages fix DoS and arbitrary command execution

2003-04-23 Thread Martin Schulze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 294-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 23rd, 2003

Re: Kernel ptrace Hole - Fix For i386 ?

2003-04-23 Thread simon raven
Greetings list, Le Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 20:01:57 -0500, Greg Norris a écrit: On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:46:38AM +0100, Nick Boyce wrote: The fix is in vanilla kernel 2.4.20 as I understand it, and it sounds like some people here are downloading that source for their Woody i386 systems.

Re: ptrace patch for vanilla kernel 2.4.20

2003-04-23 Thread Adam ENDRODI
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:07:22AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Konstantin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030422 23:03]: can anyone post the patch for the 2.4.20-kernel (from kernel.org) or give me an adress I can leech it from. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.2/0226.html

Re: grsec patch over debian 2.4.20 kernel

2003-04-23 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 08:03:45PM +0100, Hobbs, Richard wrote: Hello, Thanks for the reply... So does this mean it will become available in woody when it is deemed stable enough? theoritically, proposed-updates will be put in next release of woody (r2). Any ideas when this might be?

Re: ptrace patch for vanilla kernel 2.4.20

2003-04-23 Thread Adam ENDRODI
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:35:32AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Adam ENDRODI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030423 07:59]: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.2/0226.html http://sinuspl.net/ptrace/ Can you tell me whether these patches are the ones which were known to break

Re: Network stress testing

2003-04-23 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 at 10:32:01PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: There are several, already mentioned, and also httperf (available as a Debian package) This message was reported to razor by someone. Just a reminder all, please do not use other spam filters to automatically

RE: HELP, my Debian Server was hacked!

2003-04-23 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
Have a look at the coroner toolkit from Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema. Debian packaged : tct It is advised *not* to turn off your box, maybe you can unplug its network... not sure its a good idea even. http://www.fish.com/tct/help-when-broken-into Chosen extract : What to do --- The

Re: Kernel ptrace Hole - Fix For i386 ?

2003-04-23 Thread andrew lattis
On 2003/04/23 04:20:16AM +, Wed, simon raven wrote: btw, anyone know if PPC kernels have had the grsec patch apply cleanly to mainline kernel.org source? as i use xfs fs, the patching is rather extensive, and i haven't had much luck with it. i spent more than a week trying to compile a

Re: 288-1: openssl and stunnel

2003-04-23 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Arthur van Dorp wrote: Todays security advisory about openssl speaks about possibly breaking existing applications: Unfortunately, RSA blinding is not thread-safe and will cause failures for programs that use threads and OpenSSL such as stunnel. However, since

iptables with no module support?

2003-04-23 Thread David Ramsden
Hi, I'm building a 'secure' server. I downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel source from kernel.org and patched with grsecurity (latest patch). I also disabled loadable modules or any module support in the kernel for added security - So everything is compiled in to the kernel. However, iptables won't

RE: HELP, my Debian Server was hacked!

2003-04-23 Thread James Duncan
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: What to do --- The first 3 basic steps to handling a situation (roughly taken from the wonderful Criminalistics, An Introduction to Forensic Science, by Saferstein (see the bibliography file) are: o Secure and isolate

Re: DSA-288 - a question

2003-04-23 Thread Arthur van Dorp
If so, can anyone explain how recompiling an application can help? (There are no differences in the library interface between openssl-0.9.6c-2.woody.2 and openssl-0.9.6c-2.woody.3) My testing machine doesn't show any problems with stunnel and the updated openssl. I'm not sure what the advisory

Re: iptables with no module support?

2003-04-23 Thread David Kyle Sayre
The trick is in the kernel build. When you do a make menuconfig (or your favorite config), you neet to go under network options, and enable network packet filtering, socket filtering, and and any options you want under Netfilter Configuration (iptables support for example). Then save and

Re: iptables with no module support?

2003-04-23 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 03:17:03PM +0100, David Ramsden wrote: However, iptables won't work, saying it can't initialise iptables table 'filter' and saying do you need to insmod?. So does iptables require module support? I don't want to use modules though! :-) Surely the Netfilter people would

Re: 288-1: openssl and stunnel

2003-04-23 Thread Arthur van Dorp
I guess you won't get these problems when you are running stunnel in pipe or pipe-client mode. It is supposed to run in multi-threaded mode only when it is listening on a port. This seems to be a very good explanation to me as I run stunnel for pop3s via inetd. Thanks, Arthur.

Re: iptables with no module support?

2003-04-23 Thread David Ramsden
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 12:22:40PM -0400, Stephen Walker wrote: David, You do not need modules to run netfilter, just compile the required modules into the kernel. I have a 2.4.20 server that is iptables enabled without loadable modules so I know it works. Thanks for that Steve. Works

static stunnel

2003-04-23 Thread Martin Schulze
I've been asked to post the patch below. Karsten Merker supplied me with a patch to link woody stunnel statically against openssl. Regards, Joey -- It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. diff -Nur

Re: iptables with no module support?

2003-04-23 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Wednesday 23 April 2003 07:17 am, David Ramsden wrote: I'm building a 'secure' server. I downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel source from kernel.org and patched with grsecurity (latest patch). I also disabled loadable modules or any module support in the kernel for added security - So everything

Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Stefan Neufeind
Hi, what is the best way to remotely syslog? In RE: HELP, my Debian Server was hacked! by James Duncan he wrote to use syslog to log locally AND remotely. This is a good idea. But I wonder how to make it safe. Let's say I have two servers. Each could keep a second, separate log as backup-log

Re: iptables with no module support?

2003-04-23 Thread Alain Tesio
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:17:03 +0100 David Ramsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building a 'secure' server. I downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel source from kernel.org and patched with grsecurity (latest patch). I also disabled loadable modules or any module support in the kernel for added

Re: iptables with no module support?

2003-04-23 Thread Keegan Quinn
Sorry for the duplicate. I seem to be about 3 hours behind on email delivery. - Keegan

Re: 288-1: openssl and stunnel

2003-04-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Robert Varga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030423 18:05]: On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Arthur van Dorp wrote: As I use stunnel I wonder what these problems might be. I've updated my testing machine which is set up similar to my production server and didn't find a problem yet. But my testing possibilities

Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Kenneth R. van Wyk
On Wednesday 23 April 2003 13:43, Stefan Neufeind wrote: what is the best way to remotely syslog? If the business situation warrants the expense, then I advise my clients to run an admin network on critical servers, with one hardened syslog server to receive event logs from the servers. Keep

Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Stefan Neufeind
But what if you can't deploy a separate network just for syslog? Encrypt it somehow? Or just use ip-based-security? I guess that's the worse idea if you might be on a switch with several other machines, right? And do I really need a real syslog on the other machine? Or is there any daemon so

Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Kenneth R. van Wyk
On Wednesday 23 April 2003 17:48, Stefan Neufeind wrote: But what if you can't deploy a separate network just for syslog? Encrypt it somehow? There's at least a couple options: 1) Encrypt the syslog stream. 2) Keep the syslog stream plaintext, but really harden the syslog server as much as

Re: ptrace patch for vanilla kernel 2.4.20

2003-04-23 Thread Mail Operator
this one worked fine for me: http://sinuspl.net/ptrace/ I had no problems. Greetz Konstantin Filtschew - Original Message - From: Adam ENDRODI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-security debian-security@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 7:59 AM Subject: Re: ptrace patch for

Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Litzler Mihaly
Hi! On Wednesday 23 April 2003 22:37, Kenneth R. van Wyk wrote: If the business situation warrants the expense, then I advise my clients to run an admin network on critical servers, with one hardened syslog server What do you mean on admin network? Simply add plus network interfaces to each

Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Jamie Penner
or, if using syslog-ng, do this for each logfile type in your config file: destination syslog { file(/var/log/serverlogs/$HOST/syslog owner(root) group(adm) perm(0640)); }; that way, each server will have unique files in their own directories. I'm assuming you mean maintaining a

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2003-04-23 Thread Teemu Kulma
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Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Kenneth R. van Wyk
On Wednesday 23 April 2003 19:12, Litzler Mihaly wrote: What do you mean on admin network? Simply add plus network interfaces to each server and seperate all the traffic at lower layers? Yes, a separate, isolated, network segment that is _only_ used for administrative/management data. A

Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Litzler Mihaly
Hi! On Thursday 24 April 2003 02:04, Kenneth R. van Wyk wrote: Yes, a separate, isolated, network segment that is _only_ used for administrative/management data. A separate NIC and hub for each cluster of How do you think switching a separate VLAN for this would be also secure enough? Is it

Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Litzler Mihaly wrote: How do you think switching a separate VLAN for this would be also secure enough? Is it a must to use a dedicated device? Depends on your switch. A dedicated device is a MUCH better idea. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One

Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Jamie Heilman
Litzler Mihaly wrote: How do you think switching a separate VLAN for this would be also secure enough? Is it a must to use a dedicated device? Switching is done for speed, not security.

Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Litzler Mihaly
Hello! On Thursday 24 April 2003 03:09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Depends on your switch. A dedicated device is a MUCH better idea. Okey. I understand, really thanks for the advice. However I'm also interested in that how secure is to create VLANs with for example a Cisco29xx and

Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:09:27PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: How do you think switching a separate VLAN for this would be also secure enough? Is it a must to use a dedicated device? Depends on your switch. A dedicated device is a MUCH better idea. Yes, there are a number

Re: Secure remote syslogging?

2003-04-23 Thread Kenneth R. van Wyk
On Wednesday 23 April 2003 21:26, Jamie Heilman wrote: Litzler Mihaly wrote: How do you think switching a separate VLAN for this would be also secure enough? Is it a must to use a dedicated device? Switching is done for speed, not security. Agreed. For a dedicated logging server, though,