#497789 - security bug on iceweasel

2008-10-17 Thread s. keeling
Hi. Sorry if I've missed discussions on this. What's the scoop? apt-listbugs is telling me don't do it: critical bugs of iceweasel (2.0.0.16-0etch1 - 2.0.0.17-0etch1) pending I guess I'll scurry off to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497789 Hmm ... Flash related? Don't

Re: Root login

2008-09-12 Thread s. keeling
Vincent Deffontaines [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marek Kubica a écrit : On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:25:13 +0100 Pawe? Krzywicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the solution was as Cerbelle said. Login as a normal user and do sudo ( or you can activate root login from the login menu; but i personally

Re: Can not login as root

2008-09-04 Thread s. keeling
Pawe? Krzywicki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On czwartek, 4 wrze?nia 2008, Murat Ohannes Berin wrote: I just installed Debian on my laptop. However, I can not login as root. It ...^^^ Try to login as a single user and change your

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1605-1] DNS vulnerability impact on the libc stub resolver

2008-07-09 Thread s. keeling
Micah Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Wolfgang Jeltsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-09 13:31-0400]: configure it to only listen on 127.0.0.1, How do I do this? dpkg-reconfigure doesn?t help. I think the bind9 package comes configured this way by default in Debian (a caching-only local

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1605-1] DNS vulnerability impact on the libc stub resolver

2008-07-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Micah Anderson: * s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-09 17:31-0400]: Micah Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Wolfgang Jeltsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-09 13:31-0400]: configure it to only listen on 127.0.0.1, How do I do this? dpkg-reconfigure doesn?t help

Re: ssh-keygen still gives vulnerable keys

2008-06-04 Thread s. keeling
Harrison Conlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this problem with a completely up-to-date Ubuntu gutsy install on I can't reproduce this now, as I have since upgraded the machine to hardy, which doesn't show the problem.

Re: Thanks to Debian OpenSSL developers

2008-05-17 Thread s. keeling
Izak Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Guido Hennecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Germany we say: Wer nichts macht, macht auch nichts verkehrt. Which means: he who does nothing makes no mistakes. (For those who don't understand German) Danke. Behold, the

Re: Is oldstable security support duration something to be proud of?

2008-03-12 Thread s. keeling
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is a remarkable way to make the blatant failure to release Sarge in a timely manner an advantage from a different poit of view. If we really manage to release stable every 18 months, that would make the normal support cycle for any stable release 30

Re: Is oldstable security support duration something to be proud of?

2008-03-10 Thread s. keeling
Sorry to continue this. :-P Filipus Klutiero [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No. My point is not that users shouldn't upgrade or that Debian releases should be supported for longer. I'm just pointing that it's useless/misleading to state the project is proud of the security support duration. An

Re: ssh attacks script

2005-04-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Sun, 03 Apr 2005, chad wrote: where trying to get into me from. so i wrote a script to do it for me. I would change that script to trigger only with two or more attempts from the same IP... ... And realize that reports like this are routinely

Re: [OT] Release cycle - was Re: My machine was hacked - possibly via sshd?

2005-03-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Malcolm Ferguson: I completely agree that this needs to be discussed, but is a Debian security list the right forum? No, and sorry for continuing it. Just one more thought ... It's clear that Debian is used for different purposes and one size might not fit all. Personally

Re: secure ident daemon

2005-03-19 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from LeVA: Can someone please suggest me a secure ident daemon. I can not choose from the apt searched list. fauxident.py -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To

Re: Packet sniffing regular users

2005-03-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Brian Kim: [snip] solution, what sorts of security concerns does it present, aside from the obvious anyone can see anything sort of concern? Do you understand what anyone can see anything really means? Have you pumped tcpdump output into ethereal lately? anyone can see anything

Re: Packet sniffing regular users

2005-03-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Mandelberg: s. keeling wrote: Do you understand what anyone can see anything really means? Have you pumped tcpdump output into ethereal lately? anyone can see anything really means anyone can see anything. Think about it. And what's the real reason why you don't

Re: Packet sniffing regular users

2005-03-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Mandelberg: s. keeling wrote: ... should be != are. Are you sure no-one there's using telnet, ftp, etc? Allowing network sniffing is just another good incentive not to send confidential data

Re: Packet sniffing regular users

2005-03-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alvin Oga: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, David Mandelberg wrote: s. keeling wrote: Isn't it generally accepted that black hats who get local access (ie., a user login account) is _much_ worse than black hats who've been kept anybody and everybody has local access

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 644-1] New chbg packages fix arbitrary code execution

2005-01-19 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Florian Weimer: * s. keeling: People who don't use stupid Windows email clients have no trouble with attachments at all. Attachments are a very useful tool; for instance, for code listings, they arrive unmangled by line wrap. Get a better email client, running

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 644-1] New chbg packages fix arbitrary code execution

2005-01-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Moe: Martin Schulze wrote: Part 1 Type: C Encoding: 8bit After all these months/years of warnings to NEVER open email attachments, why are you sending attachments instead of in-line? People who don't use stupid Windows email clients have no trouble

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 644-1] New chbg packages fix arbitrary code execution

2005-01-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Mandelberg: s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Moe: Martin Schulze wrote: Part 1 Type: C Encoding: 8bit After all these months/years of warnings to NEVER open email attachments, why are you sending attachments instead of in-line? People

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 644-1] New chbg packages fix arbitrary code execution

2005-01-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rick Moen: Quoting David Mandelberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Do you mean to say that opening message.txt\t\t\t.desktop which happens to be a freedesktop.org compliant launcher for the program rm -rf $HOME is safe because it's designed for people running one of the F/OSS

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 644-1] New chbg packages fix arbitrary code execution

2005-01-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Denis O'Toole: Can you please OT: this Hint: the d key will probably do this for you. Please stop interfering with discussions of insecure applications on debian-security. TVM. :-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 644-1] New chbg packages fix arbitrary code execution

2005-01-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rick Moen: Quoting s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Well, even mutt will, if you turn on autoload crap in .muttrc and load up your .mailcap with stupid helper apps. Out of the box, no, mutt doesn't do that. Ja. We might call the .mailcap scenario the aim-gun-at-my-foot

Re: iptables requires packets counter

2005-01-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from RatÓn: I´m new to packet-filtering. As you can imaging starting to use iptables. Well once I´ve reached my first configuration I want to test it by asking iptables if a certain type of traffic is going to be ACCEPTED or not. To do this I make use of the -c option as follows:

Re: iptables requires packets counter

2005-01-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from RatÓn: So it is not ment for iptables testing. How can I test my config then?? Here's how I do it: iptables -A INPUT -s ! 127.0.0.1/32 -m state --state NEW -j LOG iptables -A INPUT -s ! 127.0.0.1/32 -m state --state NEW -j DROP Then I just watch Xconsole. Modify those to LOG

Re: Serious problem after tetex security update

2004-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Andreas Goesele: Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After the last security update with libkpathsea3 and tetex-bin my LaTeX installation doesn't work any more. When I try to compile a LaTeX file I get: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! What can I do to

Re: rkhunter / chkrootkit

2004-11-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: chkrootkit found nothing but rkhunter found quite a lot: /bin/login /bin/su /usr/bin/locate /usr/sbin/useradd /usr/sbin/usermod /usr/sbin/vip All these binaries have been alerted within rkhunter. I got a message like this [ and there was indeed an

Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ

2004-09-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rick Moen: Quoting Milan Jurik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The question isn't if stop using telnet. The question is why Debian's telnetd is still vunerable. I'd apologise for the off-topic digression -- if I thought I'd given offence. ;- No-one should have to apologise for

Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ

2004-09-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from James Renken: Greetings, I noticed the message below on BUGTRAQ last weekend, reporting a remote root compromise in telnetd. I haven't seen any discussion of this on the list archives, nor a new DSA. Am I missing something? Is anyone still using telnet when there's ssh?

Re: Spyware / Adware

2004-08-31 Thread s. keeling
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 contain any sort of command you can

Re: get notice of sec update if package is on hold

2004-08-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Timo Veith: if I have a package on hold for some reason AND I would not read debian-security-announce, how could I get to know whether there is a secur[it]y update for that package ? i) Subscribe to debian-security-announce !?! ii) Go to lists.debian.org and see

Re: newbie iptables question

2004-08-14 Thread s. keeling
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 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 ...

Re: newbie iptables question

2004-08-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Daniel Pittman: On 14 Aug 2004, s. keeling wrote: Are you suggesting that I might see stuff in my logs that was destined for a foreign IP? Not often, but occasionally, depending on how your ISP connects you to the Internet. It is most common on a LAN or a cable setup

Re: newbie iptables question

2004-08-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Wanda Round: After reading that I should look through /var/log/messages, I did and found many lines like these: 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

Re: newbie iptables question

2004-08-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from s. keeling: Incoming from Wanda Round: After reading that I should look through /var/log/messages, I did and found many lines like these: 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

Re: newbie iptables question

2004-08-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Wanda Round: s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Incoming from Wanda Round: 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

Re: Advice needed, trying to find the vulnerable code on Debian webserver.

2004-06-15 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ross Tsolakidis: One of our webservers seems to get compromised on a daily basis. When I do a ps ax I see these processes all the time. 18687 ?S 0:00 shell 18701 ?Z 0:00 [sh defunct] 18704 ?T 0:00 ./3 200.177.162.185 1524 I vaguely

Re: Advice needed, trying to find the vulnerable code on Debian webserver.

2004-06-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ross Tsolakidis: One of our webservers seems to get compromised on a daily basis. When I do a ps ax I see these processes all the time. 18687 ?S 0:00 shell 18701 ?Z 0:00 [sh defunct] 18704 ?T 0:00 ./3 200.177.162.185 1524 I vaguely

Re: [OT] Spam fights

2004-06-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from no name supplied: First off, if you are not Richard Atterer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and you are strapped for time, I'd like to warn you in advance that Noted. On Jun 10, 2004, at 6:10 AM, Richard Atterer wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:27:04PM +0300, Dmitry Golubev wrote: I

Re: [OT] Spam fights

2004-06-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from no name supplied: First off, if you are not Richard Atterer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and you are strapped for time, I'd like to warn you in advance that Noted. On Jun 10, 2004, at 6:10 AM, Richard Atterer wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:27:04PM +0300, Dmitry Golubev wrote: I

Re: Spam fights

2004-06-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rick Moen: Quoting Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Some of the anti-spam people are very enthusiastic about their work. I wouldn't be surprised if someone writes a bot to deal with CR systems. A bot to detect C-R queries and add them to the refused-mail ACL list would

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alvin Oga: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, David Stanaway wrote: X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from host-69-145-228-124.client.bresnan.net (unknown [69.145.228.124]) by david.dialmex.net (Postfix) with SMTP id CF733146132E

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alvin Oga: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, s. keeling wrote: why is your spam filter allowing 3 basic spam signs thru ?? - email to undisclosed-recipients should be bounced - email from non-existent hosts should be bounced host-69-145-228-124.client.bresnan.net

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Phillip Hofmeister: On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Alvin Oga wrote: - email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be bounced since its not coming from bresnan.net This is a bad suggestion. My ISP requires us (by blocking port 25 outbound) to use their SMTP

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Phillip Hofmeister: On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 at 01:32:55PM -0400, s. keeling wrote: Assuming my incoming mail is POPped off my ISP's mailhost and my outgoing mail goes to my ISP's mailhost, how do I implement this? If I can't, what does my ISP have to do to implement

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rick Moen: Quoting s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): However, I _would_ like to STOP it from being delivered at all, as [snip] What's it going to cost my ISP to implement this? Is it feasible for an ISP to implement this? Is it feasible for them _not_ to? ;- Yes

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rick Moen: Quoting s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yes. The problem with Alvin's solution is it only looks at the crap that spammers send. A lot of legitimate mail does all the silly things that spammers do, and users do want to receive that mail. 1. Content-based

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Phillip Hofmeister: On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 at 04:10:30PM -0400, s. keeling wrote: I don't use spamassisin, just bogofilter. Here is my relevant procmailrc snippet... Downloading it now, thanks. Hopefully this gets me back to a maintainable system without all

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alvin Oga: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, s. keeling wrote: personal email .. you can proably reject alll html emails and whitelist all your friends that are sending html emails ... Assuming you can see into the future and can predict where all your future mail will be coming from

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Michael Stone: It's not misbehaving to generate a bounce message. Glad I could clear that up. s/bounce/valid bounce/ You're welcome. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alvin Oga: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, David Stanaway wrote: X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from host-69-145-228-124.client.bresnan.net (unknown [69.145.228.124]) by david.dialmex.net (Postfix) with SMTP id CF733146132E

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alvin Oga: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, s. keeling wrote: why is your spam filter allowing 3 basic spam signs thru ?? - email to undisclosed-recipients should be bounced - email from non-existent hosts should be bounced host-69-145-228-124.client.bresnan.net

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Phillip Hofmeister: On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Alvin Oga wrote: - email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be bounced since its not coming from bresnan.net This is a bad suggestion. My ISP requires us (by blocking port 25 outbound) to use their SMTP

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Phillip Hofmeister: On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 at 01:32:55PM -0400, s. keeling wrote: Assuming my incoming mail is POPped off my ISP's mailhost and my outgoing mail goes to my ISP's mailhost, how do I implement this? If I can't, what does my ISP have to do to implement

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rick Moen: Quoting s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): However, I _would_ like to STOP it from being delivered at all, as [snip] What's it going to cost my ISP to implement this? Is it feasible for an ISP to implement this? Is it feasible for them _not_ to? ;- Yes

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rick Moen: Quoting s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yes. The problem with Alvin's solution is it only looks at the crap that spammers send. A lot of legitimate mail does all the silly things that spammers do, and users do want to receive that mail. 1. Content-based

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Phillip Hofmeister: On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 at 04:10:30PM -0400, s. keeling wrote: I don't use spamassisin, just bogofilter. Here is my relevant procmailrc snippet... Downloading it now, thanks. Hopefully this gets me back to a maintainable system without all

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alvin Oga: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, s. keeling wrote: personal email .. you can proably reject alll html emails and whitelist all your friends that are sending html emails ... Assuming you can see into the future and can predict where all your future mail will be coming from

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Michael Stone: It's not misbehaving to generate a bounce message. Glad I could clear that up. s/bounce/valid bounce/ You're welcome. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -

Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm - postprocess

2004-06-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Bernd Eckenfels: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Are you suggesting then, that we should not relay mail at all?, not even to/from our customers? If you relay mail from your customers, you have to deliver them their bounces if they spam. If you relay to your

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If it was rooted, I need to get some source code off it. Can I just stick the hard drive in another system, so I can get that source off of it, and diff it to my backups? Probably simpler to just boot from a CD and mount the filesystem you need to get stuff

Re: passwords changed?

2004-04-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If it was rooted, I need to get some source code off it. Can I just stick the hard drive in another system, so I can get that source off of it, and diff it to my backups? Probably simpler to just boot from a CD and mount the filesystem you need to get stuff

Re: ps warning message

2004-03-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Costas Magkos: I am running woody on a SPARCstation 10 with kernel from testing: # uname -a Linux foo 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown When I run ps I get the following two lines before the actual output. # ps ax {iommu_get_scsi_sgl_pflush}

Re: ps warning message

2004-03-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Costas Magkos: On 30/03/04 18:50, s. keeling wrote: I doubt debian-security is the right place for this. I've tried debian-sparc before posting here, but got no reply. Sorry for the inconvenience. :-) No problem. debian-user would have been appropriate I think. You'd

Re: ps warning message

2004-03-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Costas Magkos: I am running woody on a SPARCstation 10 with kernel from testing: # uname -a Linux foo 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown When I run ps I get the following two lines before the actual output. # ps ax {iommu_get_scsi_sgl_pflush}

Re: ps warning message

2004-03-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Costas Magkos: On 30/03/04 18:50, s. keeling wrote: I doubt debian-security is the right place for this. I've tried debian-sparc before posting here, but got no reply. Sorry for the inconvenience. :-) No problem. debian-user would have been appropriate I think. You'd

Re: Getting spam though again :-(

2004-03-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Brett Furlong: Soz, to pester. Got spam though debian security list again... Was from Jalousies M. Pseudonyms [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not winging @ Deb Mail Crew, You guys rock. But yeh, is there a way, we can have a human filter all the eMails before they are allowed to be

Re: Getting spam though again :-(

2004-03-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Brett Furlong: Soz, to pester. Got spam though debian security list again... Was from Jalousies M. Pseudonyms [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not winging @ Deb Mail Crew, You guys rock. But yeh, is there a way, we can have a human filter all the eMails before they are allowed to be

Re: Updating Kernel Using make-kpkg - Not Intuitive ?

2004-03-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Nick Boyce: Otherwise, I suggest you move /lib/modules/2.4.18 out of the way, perhaps to /lib/modules/2.4.18.old or something, and then try re-installing this image. [snip] What on earth is this trying to say to me ? Hi. This is the kernel install helper thingy. As I've

Re: setting up iptables

2004-03-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Klaus Maxam: von: s. keeling / Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:56:01 -0700 Incoming from Costas Magkos: Can someone give me some best-practices for setting up iptables on a Good question. I'm using ppp and I have a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that should be run by /etc/ppp/ip-up

Re: libxml, libxml2; Debian Security Advisory DSA 455-1

2004-03-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Martin Schulze: s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Martin Schulze: Debian Security Advisory DSA 455-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: libxml, libxml2 libxml2 is a library for manipulating XML files. [snip] For the stable distribution

Re: setting up iptables

2004-03-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Klaus Maxam: von: s. keeling / Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:56:01 -0700 Incoming from Costas Magkos: Can someone give me some best-practices for setting up iptables on a Good question. I'm using ppp and I have a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that should be run by /etc/ppp/ip-up

Re: libxml, libxml2; Debian Security Advisory DSA 455-1

2004-03-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Martin Schulze: s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Martin Schulze: Debian Security Advisory DSA 455-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: libxml, libxml2 libxml2 is a library for manipulating XML files. [snip] For the stable distribution

Re: setting up iptables

2004-03-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Costas Magkos: Can someone give me some best-practices for setting up iptables on a Debian system? I'm looking for things like where should the rules be placed, what startup script to use [1], good configuration tools [2] and Good question. I'm using ppp and I have a script

Re: setting up iptables

2004-03-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Costas Magkos: Can someone give me some best-practices for setting up iptables on a Debian system? I'm looking for things like where should the rules be placed, what startup script to use [1], good configuration tools [2] and Good question. I'm using ppp and I have a script

Re: output of last

2004-02-21 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jan Lühr: Greetings, I discovered some strange output of the last command on our Woody Terminalserver (for X11). I have already posted it on debian-user-german, but I didn't get any answer. (I hope you don't mind, if I post it for the english speaking majority) Although I

Re: output of last

2004-02-21 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jan Lühr: Greetings, I discovered some strange output of the last command on our Woody Terminalserver (for X11). I have already posted it on debian-user-german, but I didn't get any answer. (I hope you don't mind, if I post it for the english speaking majority) Although I

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 affordable, off-the-shelf

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

2004-02-19 Thread s. keeling
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 affordable, off-the-shelf software (free or proprietary). You seem to imply that one is better off with a proprietary software

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

2004-02-19 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 affordable, off-the-shelf

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

2004-02-19 Thread s. keeling
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 affordable, off-the-shelf software (free or proprietary). You seem to imply that one is better off with a proprietary software

Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...

2004-02-17 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John Hardcastle: So the default file permissions don't do what you want. $ umask Read the manual page for the umask command, $ man umask As root, change the umask in /etc/profile to reflect the permissions you want. # vi /etc/profile Then have all users logout and login

W32/Mydoom@MM (was: Re: )

2004-01-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Eduardo Almeida: I don't know if all of you already heard about this. This message is a virus as you can see below. Pardon me if this seems a bit thick headed, but why should I care? The Windows world is always being attacked by crap like this. Why is this news? I don't use

W32/Mydoom@MM (was: Re: )

2004-01-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Eduardo Almeida: I don't know if all of you already heard about this. This message is a virus as you can see below. Pardon me if this seems a bit thick headed, but why should I care? The Windows world is always being attacked by crap like this. Why is this news? I don't use

Re: Mail processing tool

2004-01-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jonas J Linde: And [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke unto the world. And said: I need a tool that does the following work: checks for new mail in a maibox via pop3; So, IMAP is the wrong answer. verify the digital signature and decrypts the mail; GnuPG parse the body;

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 411-1] New mpg321 packages fix ... - PGP key? [solved]

2004-01-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from ZsoL: Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 January 2004 06.37, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Matt Zimmerman: Debian Security Advisory DSA 411-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman January 5th, 2004

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 411-1] New mpg321 packages fix ... - PGP key? [solved]

2004-01-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from ZsoL: Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 January 2004 06.37, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Matt Zimmerman: Debian Security Advisory DSA 411-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman January 5th, 2004

Re: suspicious files in /tmp

2004-01-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rick Moen: Quoting Marcel Weber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): But what made me shudder was this: In the /tmp folder I found these files: drwx-- 2 root root 48 Aug 10 19:36 Ib2KZi drwx-- 2 root root 88 Jan 3 06:12 MF2oMw drwx-- 2

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 407-1] New ethereal packages fix several vulnerabilities

2004-01-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Martin Schulze: - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 407-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 5th, 2004

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 411-1] New mpg321 packages fix format string vulnerability - PGP key?

2004-01-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Matt Zimmerman: Debian Security Advisory DSA 411-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman January 5th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq Package: mpg321 Vulnerability

Re: suspicious files in /tmp

2004-01-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rick Moen: Quoting Marcel Weber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): But what made me shudder was this: In the /tmp folder I found these files: drwx-- 2 root root 48 Aug 10 19:36 Ib2KZi drwx-- 2 root root 88 Jan 3 06:12 MF2oMw drwx-- 2

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 407-1] New ethereal packages fix several vulnerabilities

2004-01-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Martin Schulze: - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 407-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 5th, 2004

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 411-1] New mpg321 packages fix format string vulnerability - PGP key?

2004-01-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Matt Zimmerman: Debian Security Advisory DSA 411-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman January 5th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq Package: mpg321 Vulnerability

Re: 2.4.18-bf2.4 version confusion, patches?

2004-01-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Kjetil Kjernsmo: Not quite. In addition to the bf-images, there are a bunch of images that are architecture-specific. Uhm, packages.debian.org are still down, otherwise you could have seen them there. Anyway, do You don't need p.d.o for that: (0) keeling /home/keeling_

Re: 2.4.18-bf2.4 version confusion, patches?

2004-01-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Kjetil Kjernsmo: Not quite. In addition to the bf-images, there are a bunch of images that are architecture-specific. Uhm, packages.debian.org are still down, otherwise you could have seen them there. Anyway, do You don't need p.d.o for that: (0) keeling /home/keeling_

Procmail recipe for Nitwit unsubscribers who can't read DU sigs.

2004-01-01 Thread s. keeling
FYI, procmail users: This appears to work fairly well so far; fwiw: # # inept mailing list (un)su[b]?scribe attempts, and vacation dorks. # :0 HB * 1^0 ()(I will be out of the office|I will respond to your message when I return\.) * 1^0

Procmail recipe for Nitwit unsubscribers who can't read DU sigs.

2004-01-01 Thread s. keeling
FYI, procmail users: This appears to work fairly well so far; fwiw: # # inept mailing list (un)su[b]?scribe attempts, and vacation dorks. # :0 HB * 1^0 ()(I will be out of the office|I will respond to your message when I return\.) * 1^0

Re: Faked samba packages / rootkit?

2003-12-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Markus Schabel: Does anybody know of these samba packages? http://ftp.cvut.cz/samba/samba-latest.tar.gz AFAICS they are faked and contain some kind of rootkit (you can see this in the history below. the server this history is from is taken offline for security reasons, and

Re: GnuPG mutt on Woody 3.0r2.

2003-12-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Adeodato Sim?: * s. keeling [Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:52:30 -0700]: With help from one of the list recipients, this is now verified and reproducible. Something between me and those people whose keys are determined by my copy of gpg to be Bad signature, is mangling mail

Re: GnuPG mutt on Woody 3.0r2.

2003-12-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from s. keeling: Incoming from Thomas Sj?gren: On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 12:35:49PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: gpg: Signature made Sun Dec 21 17:50:12 2003 MST using DSA key ID 946886AE gpg: BAD signature from Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, from the same guy, same

Re: GnuPG mutt on Woody 3.0r2.

2003-12-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Adeodato Sim?: * s. keeling [Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:52:30 -0700]: With help from one of the list recipients, this is now verified and reproducible. Something between me and those people whose keys are determined by my copy of gpg to be Bad signature, is mangling mail

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