Re: advice needed on how to proceed

2004-07-31 Thread Florian Zumbiehl
Hi, > They seem to be real security issues. > > The requester's attitude that his work is done since he's submitted the > report is slightly annoying but I can see his perspective. Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not requesting any work to be done for me, however I expect from the debian pr

Re: advice needed on how to proceed

2004-07-31 Thread Florian Zumbiehl
Hi, I just noticed this thread ... > Now, a specific switch passed onto ghostscript needs to be used to fix > the issue. > > From the gs man page: > > -dSAFER > Disables the "deletefile" and "renamefile" operators and > the ability to open files in any m

Re: FWD: Squirrelmail XSS + SQL security bug?

2004-07-31 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:27:55AM +0200, Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:28:23 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: > > >About security fixes in the SquirrelMail code; SquirrelMail does not > >(contrary to Roman's standpoint) adhere to a obscurity-policy but in > >stead openly d

Re: running services in their own little world

2004-07-31 Thread Sam Vilain
hanasaki wrote: Any package in Debian that will automatically run all /etc/init.d based deamons in jail / chroot? Whilst it is not automatic, you may wish to investigate the Linux vserver project; http://www.linux-vserver.net/ There is a package in Debian for it (util-vserver, and kernel-patc

PaX demo results, logs, reproduction data

2004-07-31 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have completed an in-house test of a PaX demonstration. The demo includes the PaX patch; a patch I made to suppliment PaX with boot-time selection of NX mode; a script `pax-flags` to mark binaries with chpax/paxctl and execstack (to turn the executab