Re: Fwd: Password leaks are security holes

2008-08-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:05:19PM +0200, Johan Walles wrote: 2008/8/28 Giacomo A. Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: auth.log was invented for this reason, and separated to standard log: it should be readable only by root, because users do errors. It's readable by anybody with physical access

Re: fail2ban vs. syslogd compression

2007-09-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:42:03AM +0200, Maxim Kammerer wrote: 1) Clarify if it is really true that the message last message repeated \d+ times does not always refer to the last message, as suggested in one post. I thought that syslogd's raison d'etre was exactly to provide a unified

Re: Addressing the recent zlib issue

2005-07-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:59:01PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: If you've got a reasonable complete copy of the Debian package pool and you are willing to run Clamav across it, please respond to this message. Oh, I was actually just working on some other approaches to checking for people

Re: Addressing the recent zlib issue

2005-07-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 06:40:55PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: operations. Unfortunately, we have to check all architectures individually because spurious buildd configuration changes might trigger static linking of zlib. Yes, although the main issue is likely to be people shipping a

Re: Addressing the recent zlib issue

2005-07-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:04:05PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:55:08PM +0300, Mark Brown wrote: Yes, although the main issue is likely to be people shipping a separate copy of the source. Not necessarily, because a tgz might include source that isn't actually used

Re: Addressing the recent zlib issue

2005-07-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:14:43PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Mark Brown: Yes, although the main issue is likely to be people shipping a separate copy of the source. Only by looking at the binary, you can tell if the copy which is contained in the source tarball is actually used

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 245-1] New dhcp3 packages fix potential network flood

2003-01-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:48:07PM +0100, Siegbert Baude wrote: I dont't quite understand the consequences of the above DSA posted by Martin Schulze earlier this day on Debian Security Announcements. When the problem is the dhcp-relay, why is then the dhcp3 package upgraded for Debian and not

Re: Purpose of this list

2002-03-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:43:41PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but I was under the impression that this list is only about official Security Announcements for Debian(DSA), and not a general discussion on security. Am I on the wrong list or did I read the list

Re: Purpose of this list

2002-03-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:43:41PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but I was under the impression that this list is only about official Security Announcements for Debian(DSA), and not a general discussion on security. Am I on the wrong list or did I read the list

Re: zlib ssh

2002-03-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:52:12AM -0600, xbud wrote: there is currently no working exploit for this bug.. but one will popup sooner or later. A DoS attack on SSHv2 was posted to bugtraq yesterday. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever.

Re: zlib ssh

2002-03-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:52:12AM -0600, xbud wrote: there is currently no working exploit for this bug.. but one will popup sooner or later. A DoS attack on SSHv2 was posted to bugtraq yesterday. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. pgpCnsoyf5VSn.pgp

Re: zlib ssh

2002-03-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:19:22PM +0100, Martin Hermanowski wrote: On my woody boxes, I installed the updated zlib1g from unstable and restarted sshd. Is this enough to be protected? As far as SSH is concerned (and providing your mirror was up to date enough to have 1:1.1.3-19.1 or later of

Re: zlib ssh

2002-03-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:19:22PM +0100, Martin Hermanowski wrote: On my woody boxes, I installed the updated zlib1g from unstable and restarted sshd. Is this enough to be protected? As far as SSH is concerned (and providing your mirror was up to date enough to have 1:1.1.3-19.1 or later of

Re: Bug#130876: Very definitely a bug, security

2002-01-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 05:01:14AM +, Lazarus Long wrote: severity 130876 grave This is definitely a security risk. There is no reason that such information should be exposed to attackers. Just because FreeBSD has That doesn't mean it's a severity grave bug, though. There's no actual

Re: GPG questions

2001-10-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:13:08PM -0500, Chris Flipse wrote: the one I'm using. I *think* this was an old key that I lost in a hard drive crash ... There's no way for me to get that out of the database, is there? A revokation certificiate has not made itself apparent ... I There's no way.

Re: GPG questions

2001-10-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:13:08PM -0500, Chris Flipse wrote: the one I'm using. I *think* this was an old key that I lost in a hard drive crash ... There's no way for me to get that out of the database, is there? A revokation certificiate has not made itself apparent ... I There's no way.

Re: Sendmail

2000-03-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 03:39:10PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote: what aour runq using cron? Or running sendmail in queue only mode, for that matter? -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp

Re: Identification Protocol (was: Re: your mail)

2000-03-17 Thread Mark Brown
directly - if you trust your identd, it saves you a lot of grovelling through logs. It may even be the only way you have of identifying the user responsible on a multi-user box. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie

Re: your mail

2000-03-16 Thread Mark Brown
of a TCP connection. Many servers collect and log this information to help provide an audit trail. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpDpqxscBOrt.pgp