Re: Use of DSA number for general announcements (was: [DSA 2548-1] Debian Security Team PGP/GPG key change notice)

2012-09-16 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 10:31 +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > I just want to point out though that as far as I know you can't send > an announcement mail to this list without a fake DSA id. Perhaps it is an idea to also reject mails with a DSA id already issued? That could save a few problems. Judging by

Re: Use of DSA number for general announcements

2012-09-16 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 12:49 -0400, David Prévot wrote: > They seem to be error prone for the security team, since the number was > used twice this time: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2012/msg00189.html > https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2012/msg00190.html

Re: local authentication spoofing using libnss-ldap

2011-12-24 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 17:01 +0100, Yann Autissier wrote: > I am using the libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap packages with default > configuration. > > NSS is configured to allow passwd and group resolution over ldap. > > user@host:~$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf > passwd: compat ldap > group:

Re: question regarding verification of a debian installation iso

2011-01-02 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 18:56 +0100, Naja Melan wrote: > Im trying to verify that the debian iso I downloaded has not been > tampered with by following the following faq entry: > > http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify > > There are some things I don't understand yet. I have gotten as far as > downl

Re: Lenny version info

2010-12-16 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 10:59 +1030, Ashvin Narayanan wrote: > This probably isn't the best place to ask but I couldn't find a better one. > How do I obtain information about my Lenny installation? Is there a > command that tells me the version number? What I generally do to check the status of the

Re: Debian.org ip address change?

2009-07-05 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 21:31 -0300, mr fossguy wrote: > I was just *notified that debian.org had its ip address changed, but I > haven't seen any announcement about that anywhere else See: http://dsa.debian.org/dsablog/2009/07/Howto_mess_up_the_Debian_Project_homepage/ HTH -- -- arthur - adej...

Re: Why is su preserving the environment?

2009-01-24 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 11:07 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The question is whether we can consider safe to pass authentication > tokens as environment variables. Either we do, and we fix applications > that pass environment where they shouldn’t. Either we don’t, and we have > to find another way

Re: Problems with 130.89.175.54 (security.debian.org) host?

2008-06-25 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 15:38 -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > Last several days I'm having problems accessing 130.89.175.54, a > server in the security.debian.org rotation. Probably related to this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce/2008/06/msg1.html (kassia.debian.org is 130.8

Re: security idea - bootable CD to check your system

2007-06-24 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 19:01 +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > I had someone in the past considered this, too. First of all debsums's > main advantage is looking for unintended changes (and its indeed a shame > so many of the important packages come without, that makes bad RAM or > unreliable control

Re: help needed

2006-11-06 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As I'm not so aware could someone be so kind to help me with a forensic analysis? I also still do not know which program (propably any php-stuff) was/is vulnerable. All I've found so far where these entries in my apache2 error-log. http://jesusch

Re: Missing debsums and mismatches

2005-06-24 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You could also do something like this to generate md5sums for packages that don't have them yet: cd /var/cache/apt/archives apt-get --download-only --reinstall install `debsums -l` debsums --generate=keep,nocheck *.deb (redownload all deb pac

Re: apt source archive for security updates?

2005-01-01 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 19:49 +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 07:37:18PM +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote: > > Why is it that I can't add this to my sources.list: > > > > deb-src http://security.debian.org/debain-security stable updates/main > >

apt source archive for security updates?

2004-12-31 Thread Arthur de Jong
Why is it that I can't add this to my sources.list: deb-src http://security.debian.org/debain-security stable updates/main updates/contrib updates/non-free The source files themselves seem to be present on the server (they are linked from the advisories) and there are even Sources.gz files avai

Re: am I hacked?

2004-10-31 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 17:16 +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > for a few days now I see in the logs of my firewall (debian/stable) > entries about someone trying to connect to my SSH server with several > users (root, test, mysql, etc..) without success. today I saw an entry > which alarmed me: > Oct 3

Re: failed root login attempts

2004-09-20 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > Are there any distinctive marks in the SSH login attempt that one could > filter on? The volume in attempts isn't as high here as on your system bug this is what I got when I set loglevel to debug: sshd[

Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?

2004-08-08 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > In short, better package the IDEA module for GnuPG... I did some work on this sometime ago, based on a previous package. The work is here: http://tiefighter.et.tudelft.nl/~arthur/gnupg-idea/ It is sort of an source-based installer. You get the so

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 431-1] New perl packages fix information leak in suidperl

2004-02-01 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > - -- > Debian Security Advisory DSA 431-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman > February 1st, 2004

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 431-1] New perl packages fix information leak in suidperl

2004-02-01 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > - -- > Debian Security Advisory DSA 431-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman > February 1st, 2004

Re: CVS server in a user-mode-linux

2003-12-19 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I have experimented with running an anonymous CVS server inside > user-mode-linux. [...] > The only problem is that the server need write access to the repository > in order to create locks (which are directories, IIUC). I have not yet > find a way

Re: CVS server in a user-mode-linux

2003-12-19 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I have experimented with running an anonymous CVS server inside > user-mode-linux. [...] > The only problem is that the server need write access to the repository > in order to create locks (which are directories, IIUC). I have not yet > find a way

Re: Debian + Verisign's .com/.net hijack

2003-09-17 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > While the "first generation" patches work with hardcoded values, there > are others that are much more general. Check the link of the ISC patch > for a description: > > http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/delegation-only.html This will only work for

Re: Debian + Verisign's .com/.net hijack

2003-09-17 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > While the "first generation" patches work with hardcoded values, there > are others that are much more general. Check the link of the ISC patch > for a description: > > http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/delegation-only.html This will only work for

cvsd/grsec/chroot question

2003-07-11 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm the maintainer of cvsd (chroot wrapper to run a cvs pserver) and I have a question about grsec. This refers to bug report #196690 [1]. I think this is the least inappropriate list to ask this question so here goes. The problem is that version

cvsd/grsec/chroot question

2003-07-11 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm the maintainer of cvsd (chroot wrapper to run a cvs pserver) and I have a question about grsec. This refers to bug report #196690 [1]. I think this is the least inappropriate list to ask this question so here goes. The problem is that version

Re: "chroot" + "mount --bind" + "ln" _or_ "chroot" + "cp -a"?

2003-05-31 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I'm setting up a chrooted apache. All howto's I found _copy_ the > required files into the directory that they later chroot into. > Is it OK (read: safe) to use hardlinks and "mount --bind" instead? [snip] > The files in /usr/chroot/apache/usr coul

Re: "chroot" + "mount --bind" + "ln" _or_ "chroot" + "cp -a"?

2003-05-30 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I'm setting up a chrooted apache. All howto's I found _copy_ the > required files into the directory that they later chroot into. > Is it OK (read: safe) to use hardlinks and "mount --bind" instead? [snip] > The files in /usr/chroot/apache/usr coul

Re: libldap DSA-227-1 and proftpd-ldap problems?

2003-01-18 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Jan 2003, Guenther Starnberger wrote: > the last openldap upgrade (DSA-227-1) seems to break proftpd when using > LDAP authentication with proftpd-ldap (at least on my i386 system). > > proftpd logs: > Jan 18 11:51:07 osprey proftpd[349]: foo (b

Re: libldap DSA-227-1 and proftpd-ldap problems?

2003-01-18 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Jan 2003, Guenther Starnberger wrote: > the last openldap upgrade (DSA-227-1) seems to break proftpd when using > LDAP authentication with proftpd-ldap (at least on my i386 system). > > proftpd logs: > Jan 18 11:51:07 osprey proftpd[349]: foo (b

Re: AIDE Information Overload

2002-10-22 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > I'd like to ask what people do with their AIDE output at times when a > lot of things change on their system? > > I've gone through the AIDE configuration, and I feel like having > configured it well, to c

Re: AIDE Information Overload

2002-10-22 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > I'd like to ask what people do with their AIDE output at times when a > lot of things change on their system? > > I've gone through the AIDE configuration, and I feel like having > configured it well, to c

Re: Woody Samba Bug or Hacked?

2002-09-17 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Any input on the below syslog entry from Samba in Woody? Thank you. > > nmbd[2009]: ^I^IFS 40009a03 (Samba 2.2.3a-6 for Debian) Did you use tabs in your smb.conf file? (^I==tab char)? - -- arthur - [EMAI

Re: Woody Samba Bug or Hacked?

2002-09-17 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Any input on the below syslog entry from Samba in Woody? Thank you. > > nmbd[2009]: ^I^IFS 40009a03 (Samba 2.2.3a-6 for Debian) Did you use tabs in your smb.conf file? (^I==tab char)? - -- arthur - [EMA