RE: OPENSSL

2003-06-11 Thread Reckhard, Tobias
On Tue, Jun 10, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > I'm using a 128-bit-cert. You're using an X.509 certificate. The grade of symmetric encryption negotiated between browser and web server is (at least in theory) independent of the certificate. > But browsers that support less encryption > (e.g. IE that co

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Celso González
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:58:27PM -0500, Robert Ebright wrote: > Hello, > I logged in to my server today to find that > /usr/sbin/ncsd was running about 50 copies, > since I don't have BIND installed, obviously > something was up...they were also running with > the user www-data... > After a littl

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Celso González wrote: > I dont have any information about your trojan, but i can give you a > solution (also a good security practice) > > Mount /tmp in a separate partition with the noexec flag in fstab > > This will disable most of the trojans Sorry to delude you, but brows

RE: OPENSSL

2003-06-11 Thread Stefan Neufeind
On 11 Jun 2003 at 6:59, Reckhard, Tobias wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > > I'm using a 128-bit-cert. > > You're using an X.509 certificate. The grade of symmetric encryption > negotiated between browser and web server is (at least in theory) > independent of the certificate. >

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 at 10:47:49AM +0200, Giacomo Mulas wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Celso Gonz?lez wrote: > > > I dont have any information about your trojan, but i can give you a > > solution (also a good security practice) > > > > Mount /tmp in a s

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > While I agree with your observation I feel compelled to defend his > point. > > He said mounting /tmp will stop MOST Trojans. While it might not stop a > trojan planted by a person, it will stop a trojan planted by a worm > (which is what this thre

RE: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
> While I agree with your observation I feel compelled to > defend his point. > > He said mounting /tmp will stop MOST Trojans. While it might > not stop a trojan planted by a person, it will stop a trojan > planted by a worm (which is what this thread is about) since > the author of the worm

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Victor Calzado Mayo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi On Tuesday 10 June 2003 21:58, Robert Ebright wrote: Have you copy to the new server the home directory of the user www-data? in debian is located in the root directory of the web server, so if you have copy the document root from the old server

2.5 and grsec [was Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?]

2003-06-11 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:24:11PM +0200, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: > I use it and am very happy with it. If I trust archives from this list, I am > not > the only one in this case :-) Is anyone using it with 2.5? I'm on the cusp of switching a few machines to it to get up the learning curve be

arpwatch exclusion ?

2003-06-11 Thread Jacques Foury
Hello all. I am using arpwatch, but I use a few machines with 2 ethernet cards, and they often flip-flop... As I know them, I want to exclude the flip-flop mails from my mailbox... How could I tune arpwatch so that it does not listen to those flip-flops, or it does not send mails for these ?

Re: arpwatch exclusion ?

2003-06-11 Thread Chatchai JANTARAPRIM
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Jacques Foury wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:50:14 +0200 > From: Jacques Foury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-security@lists.debian.org > Subject: arpwatch exclusion ? > Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:10:48 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: debian-security@lists.debian.org >

Re: apache

2003-06-11 Thread Glen Mehn
Martynas Domarkas wrote: Yes, of course. But in this case I will invoke rotatelogs... I don't like it. Martynas: three people now have given you advice on how to fix your "problem" three different ways. Apache doesn't have this behaviour: in fact, the apache foundation suggests you use

Re: kernel-source 2.4.20 + grsecurity + freeswan

2003-06-11 Thread simon raven
Le jeu, Jun 05, 2003 a 21:50:33 -0400, Hubert Chan a écrit: > > "Vinai" == Vinai Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Vinai> There seem to be problems using both the grsecurity and the > Vinai> freeswan patches (at least I haven't been successfull applying > Vinai> the patches - I t

Re: arpwatch exclusion ?

2003-06-11 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I am using arpwatch, but I use a few machines with 2 ethernet cards, and >they often flip-flop... As I know them, I want to exclude the flip-flop >mails from my mailbox... > >How could I tune arpwatch so that it does not listen to those

atftpd vulnerability and patch?

2003-06-11 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/filedesc/atftpdx.c.html says: Proof of concept remote root exploit for atftpd version 0.6. Makes use of the filename overflow found by Rick Patel. Related post here. Tested against Debian 3.0. By gunzip http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/filedesc/atftpd.patch

grsecurity vs lsm vs lids

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Devin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, I have been seeing lots of people on this list recommend using the grsecurity kernel patch. Now I want to give it a go, but I see that there is also a lsm patch and I also remember lids being recommended in the past by others. I would like to le

Kernel Security Fixes

2003-06-11 Thread Peter Holm
Hi, just got an announcement from the mandrake security list. Could please someone of the people with a deeper knowledge explain, if the mentioned issues are addressed in one of the "stock" debian kernels or if I have to get the sources from kernel.org and patch it myself? Mandrake Linux Secu

Re: Kernel Security Fixes

2003-06-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:18:59AM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > Could please someone of the people with a deeper knowledge explain, if > the mentioned issues are addressed in one of the "stock" debian > kernels or if I have to get the sources from kernel.org and patch it > myself? See DSA 311-1 at

Re: cronjob stuck

2003-06-11 Thread William Law
Have you tried checking the root crontab? not a normal place to put stuff, but worth checking out anyway... Regards, William On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Dale Amon wrote: > Just ran across an interesting prob, wondered if > anyone else has seen it. I added a repeating entry > to /etc/cron.d/foo that ra

Re: cronjob stuck

2003-06-11 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:55:00AM +1000, William Law wrote: > Have you tried checking the root crontab? not a normal place to put stuff, > but worth checking out anyway... Yeah, I'd checked everything. Just didn't account for pure blind bad luck chance :-) (you probably read my second post by no

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Celso González
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:58:27PM -0500, Robert Ebright wrote: > Hello, > I logged in to my server today to find that > /usr/sbin/ncsd was running about 50 copies, > since I don't have BIND installed, obviously > something was up...they were also running with > the user www-data... > After a littl

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Celso González wrote: > I dont have any information about your trojan, but i can give you a > solution (also a good security practice) > > Mount /tmp in a separate partition with the noexec flag in fstab > > This will disable most of the trojans Sorry to delude you, but brows

RE: OPENSSL

2003-06-11 Thread Stefan Neufeind
On 11 Jun 2003 at 6:59, Reckhard, Tobias wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > > I'm using a 128-bit-cert. > > You're using an X.509 certificate. The grade of symmetric encryption > negotiated between browser and web server is (at least in theory) > independent of the certificate. >

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 at 10:47:49AM +0200, Giacomo Mulas wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Celso Gonz?lez wrote: > > > I dont have any information about your trojan, but i can give you a > > solution (also a good security practice) > > > > Mount /tmp in a s

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > While I agree with your observation I feel compelled to defend his > point. > > He said mounting /tmp will stop MOST Trojans. While it might not stop a > trojan planted by a person, it will stop a trojan planted by a worm > (which is what this thre

RE: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
> While I agree with your observation I feel compelled to > defend his point. > > He said mounting /tmp will stop MOST Trojans. While it might > not stop a trojan planted by a person, it will stop a trojan > planted by a worm (which is what this thread is about) since > the author of the worm

Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?

2003-06-11 Thread Victor Calzado Mayo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi On Tuesday 10 June 2003 21:58, Robert Ebright wrote: Have you copy to the new server the home directory of the user www-data? in debian is located in the root directory of the web server, so if you have copy the document root from the old server

2.5 and grsec [was Re: a weird script worm uploaded via php with debian 3.0 ?]

2003-06-11 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:24:11PM +0200, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: > I use it and am very happy with it. If I trust archives from this list, I am > not > the only one in this case :-) Is anyone using it with 2.5? I'm on the cusp of switching a few machines to it to get up the learning curve be

arpwatch exclusion ?

2003-06-11 Thread Jacques Foury
Hello all. I am using arpwatch, but I use a few machines with 2 ethernet cards, and they often flip-flop... As I know them, I want to exclude the flip-flop mails from my mailbox... How could I tune arpwatch so that it does not listen to those flip-flops, or it does not send mails for these ?

Re: arpwatch exclusion ?

2003-06-11 Thread Chatchai JANTARAPRIM
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Jacques Foury wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:50:14 +0200 > From: Jacques Foury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: arpwatch exclusion ? > Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:10:48 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello all. > > I am using

Re: apache

2003-06-11 Thread Glen Mehn
Martynas Domarkas wrote: Yes, of course. But in this case I will invoke rotatelogs... I don't like it. Martynas: three people now have given you advice on how to fix your "problem" three different ways. Apache doesn't have this behaviour: in fact, the apache foundation suggests you use crono

Re: kernel-source 2.4.20 + grsecurity + freeswan

2003-06-11 Thread simon raven
Le jeu, Jun 05, 2003 a 21:50:33 -0400, Hubert Chan a écrit: > > "Vinai" == Vinai Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Vinai> There seem to be problems using both the grsecurity and the > Vinai> freeswan patches (at least I haven't been successfull applying > Vinai> the patches - I t

Re: arpwatch exclusion ?

2003-06-11 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I am using arpwatch, but I use a few machines with 2 ethernet cards, and >they often flip-flop... As I know them, I want to exclude the flip-flop >mails from my mailbox... > >How could I tune arpwatch so that it does not listen to those

atftpd vulnerability and patch?

2003-06-11 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/filedesc/atftpdx.c.html says: Proof of concept remote root exploit for atftpd version 0.6. Makes use of the filename overflow found by Rick Patel. Related post here. Tested against Debian 3.0. By gunzip http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/filedesc/atftpd.patch

grsecurity vs lsm vs lids

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Devin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, I have been seeing lots of people on this list recommend using the grsecurity kernel patch. Now I want to give it a go, but I see that there is also a lsm patch and I also remember lids being recommended in the past by others. I would like to learn

Kernel Security Fixes

2003-06-11 Thread Peter Holm
Hi, just got an announcement from the mandrake security list. Could please someone of the people with a deeper knowledge explain, if the mentioned issues are addressed in one of the "stock" debian kernels or if I have to get the sources from kernel.org and patch it myself? Mandrake Linux Secu

Re: Kernel Security Fixes

2003-06-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:18:59AM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > Could please someone of the people with a deeper knowledge explain, if > the mentioned issues are addressed in one of the "stock" debian > kernels or if I have to get the sources from kernel.org and patch it > myself? See DSA 311-1 at

Re: cronjob stuck

2003-06-11 Thread William Law
Have you tried checking the root crontab? not a normal place to put stuff, but worth checking out anyway... Regards, William On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Dale Amon wrote: > Just ran across an interesting prob, wondered if > anyone else has seen it. I added a repeating entry > to /etc/cron.d/foo that ra

Re: cronjob stuck

2003-06-11 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:55:00AM +1000, William Law wrote: > Have you tried checking the root crontab? not a normal place to put stuff, > but worth checking out anyway... Yeah, I'd checked everything. Just didn't account for pure blind bad luck chance :-) (you probably read my second post by no

Re: Kernel Security Fixes

2003-06-11 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:18:59AM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > Hi, > > just got an announcement from the mandrake security list. > > Could please someone of the people with a deeper knowledge explain, if > the mentioned issues are addressed in one of the "stock" debian > kernels or if I have to ge