Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-09 Thread Jon
On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 10:54, Oliver Hitz wrote: On 08 May 2003, Markus Kolb wrote: There are patched Debian kernel images with version 2.4.18-7 by the kernel-image maintainer Herbet Xu but not in official debian package trees. Just don't know where to find Herbert's packages. Perhaps

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-09 Thread Jon
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 00:27, Jon wrote: Sources are patched as of woody.2, according to this changes file[1], but only woody.1 images are available[2], as far as I can tell. The images at the second URL are still vulnerable:

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Peter Holm
On Thu, 08 May 2003 01:30:15 +0200, in linux.debian.security you wrote: kernel. The ptrace bug is not the only problem as there are other security problems (for example in the netfilter code) that have never been fixed in stable. could you please speek out about this? Where can I find more

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Markus Kolb
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 14:53, Peter Holm wrote: Hi, may I be allowed to ask some questions? I am a little bit confused about the latest discussions on the ptrace kernel bug. [...] Why isnĀ“t there a security warning about that ptrace bug? [...] Well the most problem is that Marcelo

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Peter Holm
By the way there are people not following security lists and they that was my situation. there must be hundreds or thousands of people out there, which also do have just little time for administering their debian installs and rely on security announcement list and apt-get. Also, if I

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
The security team has already released two DSA's on the ptrace issue. Those would be DSA 270 and DSA 276. Why they have not put priority on fixing it for the i386 architecture I do not know, but I do know that modifying the kernel in stable on i386 is a monstrous problem, as doing it right means

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Oliver Hitz
On 08 May 2003, Markus Kolb wrote: There are patched Debian kernel images with version 2.4.18-7 by the kernel-image maintainer Herbet Xu but not in official debian package trees. Just don't know where to find Herbert's packages. Perhaps someone can post the place! You can find patched

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Nils Juergens
On Thu, 08.05.03, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fixing it for the i386 architecture I do not know, but I do know that modifying the kernel in stable on i386 is a monstrous problem, as doing it right means you have to: - rebuild all the different kernel images - rebuild all the modules

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Nils Juergens wrote: fixing it for the i386 architecture I do not know, but I do know that modifying the kernel in stable on i386 is a monstrous problem, as doing it right means you have to: - rebuild all the different kernel images - rebuild all the modules packages external to the

Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-07 Thread Peter Holm
Hi, may I be allowed to ask some questions? I am a little bit confused about the latest discussions on the ptrace kernel bug. As I am not a regular reader of this mailing list but heavily relying on the debian security announce mailing list and apt-get, I was really wondering why I could not

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-07 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 14:53, Peter Holm wrote: The actual kernel sources that one can get via apt-get, are they already patched? I have to admit that I didn't follow this issue closely, you'll have to get this info elsewhere. And: which informtion sources do I have to follow to become

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-07 Thread Sebastian Zimmermann
Am Mit, 2003-05-07 um 17.05 schrieb Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder: On Wednesday 07 May 2003 14:53, Peter Holm wrote: The actual kernel sources that one can get via apt-get, are they already patched? kernel-source-2.4.20 in unstable is patched. I fear there's no such place. The

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-07 Thread Peter Holm
HI, This is unfortunate, but I guess it cannot be changed as the security team reputedly is quite heavily loaded even now. so is the debian project facing a kind of DOS-Attack on an organizatory level? This seems to be a social vulnerability then. Have a nice thread, Peter

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-07 Thread George Georgalis
I think you'll find the bugtraq list at http://securityfocus.com/ to be the leading edge for security information. I like focus-linux too. http://securityfocus.com/archive To find more current news on issues / exploits, you would probably need to follow some particular IRC or whatever the evil