Re: Some clarifications about the Debian-security-HOWTO

2004-02-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:14:43PM +0100, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote: > From > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch9.en.html#s9.1.6 > > > When a security fix is prepared, packages are prepared for unstable > > and the patch is back ported to stable (since stable is usually so

Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:34:37PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > I think this is the time where I'd like to see some hard data. Which DSA's > would possibly have been released differently if such a reorganisation would > have been in place? Absolutely none. The proposed "reorganization" wa

Re: Some clarifications about the Debian-security-HOWTO

2004-02-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:14:43PM +0100, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote: > From > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch9.en.html#s9.1.6 > > > When a security fix is prepared, packages are prepared for unstable > > and the patch is back ported to stable (since stable is usually so

Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:34:37PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > I think this is the time where I'd like to see some hard data. Which DSA's > would possibly have been released differently if such a reorganisation would > have been in place? Absolutely none. The proposed "reorganization" wa

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Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:34:37PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: In other cases, that entity discloses informatin only to a select few parties, amongst them the non-CERT Debian security team. This is the one case where that scheme does make a difference. Has this ever happened in the past? T

Re: Delayed disclosure and Debian manifesto (was Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?)

2004-02-20 Thread Gian Piero Carrubba
Il ven, 2004-02-20 alle 12:13, Michael Stone ha scritto: > >Well, I really don't want to feed a troll, but this is a theme I'm > >wondering about from a while... > > Then do a web search. It's been discussed before in way too much detail > and repeating the arguments just brings out the trolls. Y

Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 20 February 2004 13.40, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Is it entirely impossible to have two security teams, or split the > current security team into two parts?  One part that patches Debian > packages as soon as technically possible, and one part that follows > various CERT timing requirement

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Re: Some clarifications about the Debian-security-HOWTO

2004-02-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:14:43PM +0100, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote: But this is not always true. Sometimes the DSA reports "For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon." Why this ? The security team has nothing to do with sid packages. If a fix is ready when the advi

Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:40:23PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: Is it entirely impossible to have two security teams, or split the current security team into two parts? One part that patches Debian packages as soon as technically possible, and one part that follows various CERT timing requireme

Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread Simon Josefsson
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:30:54PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> Bernd S. Brentrup wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:44:15PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: >> > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:17:13PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> > > >Yes, thi

Some clarifications about the Debian-security-HOWTO

2004-02-20 Thread Gian Piero Carrubba
From http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch9.en.html#s9.1.6 > When a security fix is prepared, packages are prepared for unstable > and the patch is back ported to stable (since stable is usually some > minor or major versions behind). Packages for the stable distribution > are

Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:34:37PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: In other cases, that entity discloses informatin only to a select few parties, amongst them the non-CERT Debian security team. This is the one case where that scheme does make a difference. Has this ever happened in the past? This

Re: Delayed disclosure and Debian manifesto (was Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?)

2004-02-20 Thread Gian Piero Carrubba
Il ven, 2004-02-20 alle 12:13, Michael Stone ha scritto: > >Well, I really don't want to feed a troll, but this is a theme I'm > >wondering about from a while... > > Then do a web search. It's been discussed before in way too much detail > and repeating the arguments just brings out the trolls. Y

Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 20 February 2004 13.40, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Is it entirely impossible to have two security teams, or split the > current security team into two parts?  One part that patches Debian > packages as soon as technically possible, and one part that follows > various CERT timing requirement

Re: Delayed disclosure and Debian manifesto (was Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?)

2004-02-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:01:13PM +0100, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote: Well, I really don't want to feed a troll, but this is a theme I'm wondering about from a while... Then do a web search. It's been discussed before in way too much detail and repeating the arguments just brings out the trolls.

Re: Some clarifications about the Debian-security-HOWTO

2004-02-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:14:43PM +0100, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote: But this is not always true. Sometimes the DSA reports "For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon." Why this ? The security team has nothing to do with sid packages. If a fix is ready when the advisory

Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:40:23PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: Is it entirely impossible to have two security teams, or split the current security team into two parts? One part that patches Debian packages as soon as technically possible, and one part that follows various CERT timing requirement

Delayed disclosure and Debian manifesto (was Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?)

2004-02-20 Thread Gian Piero Carrubba
Il ven, 2004-02-20 alle 05:58, John Galt ha scritto: > "we won't hide problems" ... Well, I really don't want to feed a troll, but this is a theme I'm wondering about from a while... Shouldn't the delayed disclosure be regarded a a sort of, at least partially, infringement of the Debian manifesto

Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread Simon Josefsson
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:30:54PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> Bernd S. Brentrup wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:44:15PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: >> > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:17:13PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> > > >Yes, thi

Some clarifications about the Debian-security-HOWTO

2004-02-20 Thread Gian Piero Carrubba
From http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch9.en.html#s9.1.6 > When a security fix is prepared, packages are prepared for unstable > and the patch is back ported to stable (since stable is usually some > minor or major versions behind). Packages for the stable distribution > are

Re: 2.2 Kernel Fix

2004-02-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:56:12AM +0100, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > 2.2 series of kernels, sincee they're apparently vulnerable too? > You can find the patch on bugtraq/isec/etc, attached is a peek at it I had a privat discussion about this patch with someone from the Debian Security Team and he

Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread Florian Weimer
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Note the "affordable, off-the-shelf". Matt, Debian is also sold on shelves. > The implication being that if you pay more to a proprietary software > vendor (and they typically are more expensive), then you'll be better > off security-wise. If you pay someone for the incr

Re: Delayed disclosure and Debian manifesto (was Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?)

2004-02-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:01:13PM +0100, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote: Well, I really don't want to feed a troll, but this is a theme I'm wondering about from a while... Then do a web search. It's been discussed before in way too much detail and repeating the arguments just brings out the trolls. Mik

Delayed disclosure and Debian manifesto (was Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?)

2004-02-20 Thread Gian Piero Carrubba
Il ven, 2004-02-20 alle 05:58, John Galt ha scritto: > "we won't hide problems" ... Well, I really don't want to feed a troll, but this is a theme I'm wondering about from a while... Shouldn't the delayed disclosure be regarded a a sort of, at least partially, infringement of the Debian manifesto

Re: 2.2 Kernel Fix

2004-02-20 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> 2.2 series of kernels, sincee they're apparently vulnerable too? You can find the patch on bugtraq/isec/etc, attached is a peek at it -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 --- linux/mm/mremap.c.security Sun Mar 25 20:31:03 2001 +++ linux/mm/

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 443-1] New xfree86 packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-02-20 Thread Jean Christophe ANDRÉ
Le vendredi 20 février 2004 à 08h45 (+0100), Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder écrivait : > With the current thread in this list: thanks, Matt & team - I'm quite > satisfies with the way Debian handles security updates currently. I follow on this: I am more than satisfied with the security tea

Re: 2.2 Kernel Fix

2004-02-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:56:12AM +0100, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > 2.2 series of kernels, sincee they're apparently vulnerable too? > You can find the patch on bugtraq/isec/etc, attached is a peek at it I had a privat discussion about this patch with someone from the Debian Security Team and he

Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread Florian Weimer
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Note the "affordable, off-the-shelf". Matt, Debian is also sold on shelves. > The implication being that if you pay more to a proprietary software > vendor (and they typically are more expensive), then you'll be better > off security-wise. If you pay someone for the incr

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 443-1] New xfree86 packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-02-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
With the current thread in this list: thanks, Matt & team - I'm quite satisfies with the way Debian handles security updates currently. And some people need to remind themselves that Debian is a volounteer project and is open source - so, if you want more/faster security updates, hire somebody

Re: 2.2 Kernel Fix

2004-02-20 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> 2.2 series of kernels, sincee they're apparently vulnerable too? You can find the patch on bugtraq/isec/etc, attached is a peek at it -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 --- linux/mm/mremap.c.security Sun Mar 25 20:31:03 2001 +++ linux/mm/

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 443-1] New xfree86 packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-02-20 Thread Jean Christophe ANDRÉ
Le vendredi 20 fÃvrier 2004 Ã 08h45 (+0100), Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder Ãcrivait : > With the current thread in this list: thanks, Matt & team - I'm quite > satisfies with the way Debian handles security updates currently. I follow on this: I am more than satisfied with the security tea

Re: DSA 438 - bad server time, bad kernel version or information delayed?

2004-02-20 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Matt Zimmerman: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:12:42PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > > Incoming from Matt Zimmerman: > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:24:42PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > > > > > You don't. Tough luck, of course, but that's the price for running > > > > affordabl

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 443-1] New xfree86 packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-02-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
With the current thread in this list: thanks, Matt & team - I'm quite satisfies with the way Debian handles security updates currently. And some people need to remind themselves that Debian is a volounteer project and is open source - so, if you want more/faster security updates, hire somebody