Re: Kernel upgrade for 3Ware Driver issues?

2008-04-23 Thread Simon Valiquette
Rolf Kutz un jour écrivit: On 23/04/08 07:00 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: disk"--systems maintainence issue.) The end result of data security processes should lead you to backups or some other contingency plan, no shoving arbitrary software into stable because it scratches your itch. Instead

Re: pam_unix2 and xscreensaver password to restrictive

2008-04-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:13:46PM -0400, Hubert Chathi wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:01:12 +1000 Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is an error I was getting on xscreensaver that i noticed was > > being caused by pam. > > This is probably bugs #295526, #309037, #362954, #440955,

Re: Missing sparc binaries for DSA 1551-1 (python2.4)

2008-04-23 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Mark H. Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although this advisory says that a stable update is available for > sparc, the sparc binary packages are missing from the advisory, and > they do not seem to be on security.debian.org either. > > Are you aware of this issue? Is it being worked on? The s

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1555-1] New iceweasel packages fix arbitrary code execution

2008-04-23 Thread Brad Dondale
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Re: pam_unix2 and xscreensaver password to restrictive

2008-04-23 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:01:12 +1000 Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an error I was getting on xscreensaver that i noticed was > being caused by pam. This is probably bugs #295526, #309037, #362954, #440955, (have I missed any?). From #295526, it looks like the pam_unix2 maintainer

Re: Kernel upgrade for 3Ware Driver issues?

2008-04-23 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 23/04/08 07:00 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: needs to be scoped. There is no benefit whatsoever to defining *anything bad that happens* as a computer security issue. ("Oops, I acidentally deleted my own file"--no, you screwed up, "Oops, the building burned down"--bigger problem than compute

Re: Kernel upgrade for 3Ware Driver issues?

2008-04-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:14:28AM +0200, Vladislav Kurz wrote: This bight be a little off-topic, but I'd like to know if there is a definition of what is a "security issue" ? Once I learned that security consists of confidentiality, integrity and availability. And data corruption destroys inte

pam_unix2 and xscreensaver password to restrictive

2008-04-23 Thread Alex Samad
Hi This is an error I was getting on xscreensaver that i noticed was being caused by pam. I tied the debian-user list, but thought it more appropriate in deb-sec basically I have this in my common-auth auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix2.so auth required pam_ldap.so use_first_pass auth re

Re: Kernel upgrade for 3Ware Driver issues?

2008-04-23 Thread Vladislav Kurz
On Wednesday 23 of April 2008, dann frazier wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:45:53PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: > > --On April 22, 2008 11:21:25 PM +0200 Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > >> I guess the number of systems with amd64 and a 3ware 7xxx/8 PATA > >> controllers

Re: Kernel upgrade for 3Ware Driver issues?

2008-04-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* dann frazier: > But that doesn't make them security issues. Don't get me wrong, I'd be > all for a more fluid update process for non-security/critical issues, > but it doesn't exist at the moment. The security team controls what > goes out as a security update, and we're not going to get the sec