Re: Versions of shared libraries

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 15 Jul 2005, Jarosław Tabor wrote: Hi all! This is probably not the best list, but it may also be important from security point of view. You were right - this isn't the best list. :/ I've tried to check the version of some lib from my program, and it looks, that the only way is to

Re: Firewall-troubleshooting

2005-07-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 5 Jul 2005, Paul Gear wrote: Daniel Pittman wrote: ... So, probably, the best way to go is allowing the R/E packets alongside their new state counterparts. It also clarifies where the packets are accepted and WHY. Also, iptables -v should be a lot more useful than before. That was my

Re: Firewall-troubleshooting

2005-07-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 5 Jul 2005, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:00:53PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: /sbin/iptables -t filter -A in_world_http_s1 -p tcp --sport 1024:65535 --dport 80 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -t filter -A out_world_http_s1 -p tcp --sport 80

Re: Firewall-troubleshooting

2005-07-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 4 Jul 2005, Paul Gear wrote: Daniel Pittman wrote: ... Am i right in understanding that you consider accepting RELATED/ESTABLISHED packets a bad thing? No. Accepting *any* RELATED/ESTABLISHED packets is, though, if someone finds an attack to generate entries in the conntrack table

Re: Firewall-troubleshooting

2005-07-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 5 Jul 2005, Eloi Granado wrote: On Sunday, 3 de July de 2005 23:24, Paul Gear wrote: Daniel Pittman wrote: It also tends to encourage shortcuts in the firewall, like accepting any RELATED/ESTABLISHED packets, Am i right in understanding that you consider accepting RELATED/ESTABLISHED

Re: Firewall-troubleshooting

2005-07-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 3 Jul 2005, Jakub Sporek wrote: On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 05:07:02 +0200, Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found that 'firehol' was quite a surprise to me -- not only didn't it suck, it actually improved my hand-written firewall somewhat. Unlike everything else, it doesn't tell you

Re: Firewall-troubleshooting

2005-07-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 4 Jul 2005, Paul Gear wrote: Daniel Pittman wrote: ... Shorewall, like many firewall packages, gives you[1] a whole bunch of configuration options, which turn on or off features in the pre-packaged firewall you have. This tends to make it hard to do strange things like playing with DSCP

Re: Firewall-troubleshooting

2005-07-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 4 Jul 2005, KC wrote: [...] *nat :PREROUTING DROP [0:0] :POSTROUTING DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT DROP [0:0] COMMIT I thought that using a policy of DROP in the nat tables would result in anything that wasn't NAT-ed being prevented from passing through by iptables. I can't find any documentation

Re: Firewall-troubleshooting

2005-07-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 3 Jul 2005, KC wrote: I need help understanding what goes wrong in this script. I cannot ping anyone and cannot resolve as well. In fact I believe the only thing I can get is an ip address from my isp's dhcp server. With sufficiently modern kernels, the DHCP client uses raw sockets, so it

Re: Firewall-troubleshooting

2005-07-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 3 Jul 2005, KC wrote: Daniel Pittman wrote: On 3 Jul 2005, KC wrote: I need help understanding what goes wrong in this script. I cannot ping anyone and cannot resolve as well. In fact I believe the only thing I can get is an ip address from my isp's dhcp server. [...] I can't spot

Re: My machine was hacked - possibly via sshd?

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 31 Mar 2005, JM wrote: You can use pinning to pull in some packages from testing to stable or whatever if you really must. My experiences with pining have been good in the begining but, sooner or later, I ended up with a broken system. Happy now running sarge but I recognize the value of

Re: hi

2005-03-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 11 Mar 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a problem in logging into my linux machine it is saying me that authentication failure Try putting in the correct username and password; that should solve that problem. More seriously: this isn't a bug report, or a problem, it is a

Re: using sarge on production machines

2005-02-17 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 18 Feb 2005, kurt kuene wrote: * I have to use testing (sarge). * Have to? All of my 3 webservers (apache php mysql java tomcat). on two other webserver I run woody with some packages from sarge (apt-pining) and the mail relay servers (spamassasin amavisd postfix clamav). IIRC, all of

Re: Security issue? Daemon users has to much rights...

2004-10-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 22 Oct 2004, Jan Lhr wrote: because of the recent xpdf issues I tested the access restrictions of some users like lp, mail, etc. with default settings in sarge. I noticed that, by default, no acl were used to prevent access to vital system commands, the user shouldn't have. For instance:

Re: Security issue? Daemon users has to much rights...

2004-10-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 23 Oct 2004, Jan Lhr wrote: Am Freitag, 22. Oktober 2004 14:02 schrieb Daniel Pittman: On 22 Oct 2004, Jan Lhr wrote: because of the recent xpdf issues I tested the access restrictions of some users like lp, mail, etc. with default settings in sarge. I noticed that, by default, no acl were

Re: repeated requests for a file favicon.ico

2004-10-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 6 Oct 2004, Emil Perhinschi wrote: Sorry to bother, but is this an attack? I get repeated requests for a file favicon.ico that should have been, or so the client connecting believes, in the root of my htdocs. Yup. Ages ago Microsoft added support for displaying that icon next to various

Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ

2004-09-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 28 Sep 2004, Dariusz Pietrzak wrote: ftp == good enough for public upload and download in a chroot environment. scp == the preferred method for data transfer between machines. Nearly as fast on semi-modern machines. pscp == the windows equivalent for regault *NIXX scp. What is wrong

Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ

2004-09-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 28 Sep 2004, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: I don't know what you imagine is encrypted in FTP, though, since that is not part of the specification or the standard implementations. oh, not part of THIS: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt specification? that is like, what, 5 years old? Why, no.

Re: [OT] Collective memory query

2004-09-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 28 Sep 2004, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Alternately, with sed: ] sed -si.orig -e '...' `find . -name '...'` More safely, but with more forks: ] find . -name '...' -print0 | xargs -0 sed -si.orig -e '...' BTW: I dont see how xarg would do more forks

Re: [OT] Collective memory query

2004-09-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 27 Sep 2004, Dale Amon wrote: A couple years ago I ran across a sed like program that will recursively descend through a tree and apply specified edits in place. I have searched my notes, gone through the deb available and have not been able to find it. Might just have been something on

Re: Spyware / Adware

2004-08-31 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 1 Sep 2004, Jim Richardson wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:50:09 +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 13.30, Volker Tanger wrote: [spyware/adware/trojans/...:] Yes and no. When surfing as normal user *ware programs cannot install

Re: Spyware / Adware

2004-08-31 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 1 Sep 2004, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Daniel Pittman: *Most* mail clients under Unix are better written than to do that, but Even mutt (a terrific MUA) _can be told_ to automatically handle MIME types for you, if you want. It just depends what's in your /.mailcap, and that can

Re: [ph.unimelb.edu.au #11] AutoReply: [SECURITY] [DSA 542-1] New Qt packages fix arbitrary code execution and denial of service

2004-08-30 Thread Daniel Pittman via RT
On 31 Aug 2004, Physics IT Support via wrote: This message has been automatically generated in response to the creation of a trouble ticket regarding: [SECURITY] [DSA 542-1] New Qt packages fix arbitrary code execution and denial of service, a summary of which appears below. There is no need

Re: MD5 collisions found - alternative?

2004-08-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 24 Aug 2004, Robert Trebula wrote: Maybe you have already noticed - collisions have been found in MD5 hashing algorithm: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199.pdf http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000664.html http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-crypto-hashes.html My question is:

Re: MD5 collisions found - alternative?

2004-08-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 24 Aug 2004, Sam Vilain wrote: Robert Trebula wrote: Maybe you have already noticed - collisions have been found in MD5 hashing algorithm: [...] I think cryptanalysts have 'cracked' pretty much all of them, though with practically prohibitive costs of cracking them (eg, 2^50 for

Re: MD5 collisions found - alternative?

2004-08-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 25 Aug 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:20:24PM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 at 10:50:38AM -0400, Daniel Pittman wrote: Be aware that this sort of technique multi-encryption technique can lead to significant exposures when applied to traditional

Re: JavaScript and Cookies enabled in Browser

2004-08-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 20 Aug 2004, Don Froien, III wrote: I was recently in a meeting where members of the IT group propose to use a utility called WebEx to perform remote compiles. Webex offers SSL encrypted transfers and the ability to offer only selected members to the meeting (remote compile in this case)

Re: newbie iptables question

2004-08-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 14 Aug 2004, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Bernd Eckenfels: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Aug 12 04:36:53 towern kernel: |iptables -- IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=201.129.122.85 DST=12.65.24.43 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=115 ID=40023 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4346 DPT=445 WINDOW=16384

Re: running services in their own little world

2004-07-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 24 Jul 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any package in Debian that will automatically run all /etc/init.d based deamons in jail / chroot? No, because it is not possible to provide a generic solution to running daemons under a chroot, for a variety of reasons. Regards, Daniel --

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 16 Jun 2004, Hubert Chan wrote: Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:34, Patrick Maheral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] SpamAssassin will check for hashcash in the future. Support is already present in the development version of SpamAssassin.

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 16 Jun 2004, Hubert Chan wrote: Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:34, Patrick Maheral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] SpamAssassin will check for hashcash in the future. Support is already present in the development version of SpamAssassin.

Re: rbl's status?

2004-06-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 14 Jun 2004, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: This sort of thing is why I would rather use any RBL within SpamAssassin, rather than at SMTP delivery time. Even if one of these services goes completely belly up and blacklists the world, I don't automatically

Re: rbl's status?

2004-06-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 14 Jun 2004, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: This sort of thing is why I would rather use any RBL within SpamAssassin, rather than at SMTP delivery time. Even if one of these services goes completely belly up and blacklists the world, I don't automatically

Re: rbl's status?

2004-06-13 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 14 Jun 2004, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 07:46:15PM +0300, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: What are the recommended rbl's these days? Best thing is ask on NANAE or exim-users or whatever your favourite MTA is. Here's what I am using here RBL-wise: rbl_domains =

Re: samba log directory

2004-06-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 12 Jun 2004, Christian Christmann wrote: I just checked my /var/log/samba and found bunch of log files: log.shitbanda log.familj log.mario-t3psqfw32 log.talentoaa log.syb07 log.50163099sp log.gustavo log.momerdadd log.rampeiras

Re: samba log directory

2004-06-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 12 Jun 2004, Christian Christmann wrote: I just checked my /var/log/samba and found bunch of log files: log.shitbanda log.familj log.mario-t3psqfw32 log.talentoaa log.syb07 log.50163099sp log.gustavo log.momerdadd log.rampeiras

Re: users and security ibwebadmin

2004-06-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 2 Jun 2004, Remco Seesink wrote: I tried the question below first on debian-mentors but harvested silence. Hopefully it is more on topic here. In part, that is probably because you asked a very hard question. :) [...] I am packaging ibwebadmin, a web administration tool for firebird and

Re: users and security ibwebadmin

2004-06-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 2 Jun 2004, Remco Seesink wrote: I tried the question below first on debian-mentors but harvested silence. Hopefully it is more on topic here. In part, that is probably because you asked a very hard question. :) [...] I am packaging ibwebadmin, a web administration tool for firebird and

Re: restricting process limit

2004-04-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Dan Christensen wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, George Georgalis wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 06:44:35PM +0200, LeVA wrote: So when I'm getting a large amount of messages there is approx. 15-20 spamc/spamd running. I want to limit

Re: restricting process limit

2004-04-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 07:08:05PM +0200, Thomas Schuering wrote: Hi, So when I'm getting a large amount of messages there is approx. 15-20 spamc/spamd running. I want to limit this to ~5. How can I do this. /usr/sbin/spamd -d -m 5 '-d'

Re: restricting process limit

2004-04-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, George Georgalis wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 06:44:35PM +0200, LeVA wrote: I have a 'spam' user, and I've set up postfix, to run a tiny little script as this 'spam' user. This script accepts messages thru the stdin, and it filters the message thru the spamd daemon with

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:15:10AM +0200, LeVA wrote: I always compile the latest stable 2.4 kernel with loadable modules disabled, but I don't apply any kernel patches. Is this safe, or I must apply some security patch? None of the recent

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:15:10AM +0200, LeVA wrote: I always compile the latest stable 2.4 kernel with loadable modules disabled, but I don't apply any kernel patches. Is this safe, or I must apply some security patch? None of the recent