Re: handling private keys

2005-06-28 Thread Christian Storch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Radu Spineanu wrote: > Hello > > I working on a small project, and i have a problem related to > keeping gpg private keys stored on usb drives secure when working > with them. > > My problem is that in case the machine is compromised, if the usb > wi

Re: Cyrus21 does not work corectly with SSL

2005-02-16 Thread Christian Storch
On Di, 15.02.2005, 21:53, Nicolas Ledez wrote: > Le Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:47:53PM +0100, Christian Storch a écrit : >> I've tried your scripts for creating root and server certs. >> Testing with s_client on two different servers I got no errors >> but nearly the same

Re: Cyrus21 does not work corectly with SSL

2005-02-15 Thread Christian Storch
On Di, 15.02.2005, 13:20, Nicolas Ledez wrote: > Le Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:38:43AM +0100, Christian Storch a écrit : ... > My ca was generated with attach script. > And my cyrus cert with do script. > >> Nicolas: How you've created your certs? >> The commands with arg

Re: Cyrus21 does not work corectly with SSL

2005-02-15 Thread Christian Storch
On Di, 15.02.2005, 00:25, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you > wrote: >> 'Toto Root CA' seems to be a self signed certificate instead of an >> undependent certificate as your root certificate. You don't have to >> self sign a root certificate. > > You need a signature on al

Re: Cyrus21 does not work corectly with SSL

2005-02-14 Thread Christian Storch
On Mo, 14.02.2005, 21:58, Nicolas Ledez wrote: > Hello, I have a Cyrus21 installation (Sarge). When I'm connect to cyrus > first time (after cyrus start) : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ openssl s_client -connect my_host.my_domain.com:imaps > CONNECTED(0004) > depth=1 /C=MY/ST=France/L=SmallTown/O=To

Re: Any way to simulate traffic?

2005-01-14 Thread Christian Storch
On Do, 13.01.2005, 20:37, Javier Pardo sagte: > Hello. > > I´m looking after a way to simulate traffic in order to probe my > iptables' rules. > > In other words. Is there any way, any command or any iptables parameter > to ask iptables what is going to do (according with the active rules) > when s

Re: php vulnerabilities

2004-12-29 Thread Christian Storch
On Mi, 29.12.2004, 20:09, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > At first I believe that security.debian.org could > handle this, but in fact, it is more patching and > backporting patches than new version for security reasons. > > We also have to consider that a "innocent" upgrade >

Re: php vulnerabilities

2004-12-29 Thread Christian Storch
On Di, 28.12.2004, 02:24, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 05:16:39PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >>However, most of our packages haven't got test suites, and our >>dependency graph is certainly more convoluted than Red Hat's. For >>example, Red Hat probably has only a handful packa

Re: php vulnerabilities

2004-12-23 Thread Christian Storch
On Do, 23.12.2004, 21:16, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Jan Minar: > >> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 05:16:39PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> My current idea is to borrow an idea from Microsoft: Create a Patch >>> Validation Program. Under this program, you get access to security >>> fixes before the of

Re: php vulnerability

2004-12-21 Thread Christian Storch
On Di, 21.12.2004, 17:35, Sam Morris wrote: > Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Christian Storch: >> > > Use a backport of PHP 4.3.10. Apparently, there is no other way at >> > > this stage to be sure. (Upstream no longer supports PHP 4.1.x.) >> > >> &

Re: php vulnerability

2004-12-21 Thread Christian Storch
On Di, 21.12.2004, 10:13, Florian Weimer sagte: > * saravanan ganapathy: > >> I am also worrying about these vulnerabilities.btw I >> am using debian php package(4.1.2) on woody. >> How do I sure that I am out of danger? > > Use a backport of PHP 4.3.10. Apparently, there is no other way at >

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-28 Thread Christian Storch
On Sa, 27.11.2004, 03:43, Stephen Gran wrote: ... > I guess what I'm trying to say is, I understand your misgivings, beause > people implementing most anything can manage to do it in a really stupid, > painful and harmful way. That doesn't necessarily mean the idea is > unsound. Greylisting is, i

Re: murphy in sbl.spamhaus.org

2004-11-26 Thread Christian Storch
On Fr, 26.11.2004, 03:34, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> And, of course, postgrey as the very first line of defense. >> >> Coupled with the usual checking on HELO (blocking 'localhost' HELOs and >> my >> own IP does wonders!), SMTP p

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Christian Storch
On Sa, 16.10.2004, 16:21, Ben Goedeke wrote: > Kurt Roeckx wrote: ... > Hmm. That gives me an idea: > > Destination Gateway Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > 134.102.0.0/16 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 eth1 > > With such a routing entry the firewall will try and resolve mac > addr

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Christian Storch
On Sa, 16.10.2004, 13:39, Benjamin Goedeke wrote: ... > ethernet address, namely the one of the upstream router.) So it seems > arp resolution occurs even though the packets are being dropped. That's > why I thought the bridge before the firewall could be a good idea. But > I guess the net gets clo

Re: arp table overflow due to windows worm

2004-10-16 Thread Christian Storch
On Sa, 16.10.2004, 07:58, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Ben Goedeke wrote: >> Should it really be possible for a single infected windows machine to >> dos >> a linux firewall? Please tell me it's not true and there's just >> something >> I'm overlooking. I'm at my wits e

RE: [DSA 563-2] New cyrus-sasl packages really fix arbitrary code execution

2004-10-14 Thread Christian Storch
Have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276268 Perhaps it would help you for the moment to recompile the package as I did. Christian -Original Message- From: Frank Strau? [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

RE: Major TCP Vulnerability (CERT, BGP)

2004-04-21 Thread Christian Storch
Sorry, in the case of BGP this would mean CERT is assuming that every ISP is ignoring the well known issue about vulnerability of Cisco routers and perhaps others. After that very urgent mailing about half a year ago I've edited as other ISP's especially all BGP relevant filters in such a manner th

RE: Major TCP Vulnerability (CERT, BGP)

2004-04-21 Thread Christian Storch
Sorry, in the case of BGP this would mean CERT is assuming that every ISP is ignoring the well known issue about vulnerability of Cisco routers and perhaps others. After that very urgent mailing about half a year ago I've edited as other ISP's especially all BGP relevant filters in such a manner th

RE: setting up iptables

2004-03-04 Thread Christian Storch
Have a look at http://www.netfilter.org/ - there you could find all about it. If you want a nice html configuration, start a firewall script from above and import it by 'webmin-firewall'. Christian -Original Message- From: Costas Magkos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04,

RE: setting up iptables

2004-03-04 Thread Christian Storch
Have a look at http://www.netfilter.org/ - there you could find all about it. If you want a nice html configuration, start a firewall script from above and import it by 'webmin-firewall'. Christian -Original Message- From: Costas Magkos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04,

RE: apt-get upgrade and kernel images

2004-02-27 Thread Christian Storch
To make it simply and clear use apt-cache policy kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686-smp and you will see what would be done and why. Christian -Original Message- From: Andris Kalnozols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:42 AM To: debian-security@lists.debian.org Subject

RE: apt-get upgrade and kernel images

2004-02-27 Thread Christian Storch
To make it simply and clear use apt-cache policy kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686-smp and you will see what would be done and why. Christian -Original Message- From: Andris Kalnozols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: apt-get upgra

Re: sendmail problem:connection timed out

2004-01-05 Thread Christian Storch
Are you able to ping 64.4.33.7 !? If so, try 'telnet 64.4.33.7 25' next to get a smtp prompt. If nothing works look at your connection: Firewall rules etc. Beside that your sendmail seems to work. Christian - Original Message - From: "arun raj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, Jan

Re: sendmail problem:connection timed out

2004-01-05 Thread Christian Storch
Are you able to ping 64.4.33.7 !? If so, try 'telnet 64.4.33.7 25' next to get a smtp prompt. If nothing works look at your connection: Firewall rules etc. Beside that your sendmail seems to work. Christian - Original Message - From: "arun raj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: suspicious smbd connections

2003-12-24 Thread Christian Storch
That's typical: IP's are really scanned like ..., 1.2.3.4, 1.2.3.5, 1.2.3.6, ... etc. > > You are being scanned. Get used to it. You're not specifically being > > targetted, but rather your IP address was randomly generated by some > > worm on some Windows box and a connection attempt was made.

Re: suspicious smbd connections

2003-12-24 Thread Christian Storch
That's typical: IP's are really scanned like ..., 1.2.3.4, 1.2.3.5, 1.2.3.6, ... etc. > > You are being scanned. Get used to it. You're not specifically being > > targetted, but rather your IP address was randomly generated by some > > worm on some Windows box and a connection attempt was made.

Re: creating password for a shadow file

2003-12-01 Thread Christian Storch
- Original Message - From: "LeVA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > htpasswd -m shadow.ftp user > htpasswd without '-m' works for apache 1.3.26 & proftpd 1.2.4, with '-m' it doesn't! (both actual version from woody) Christian

Re: creating password for a shadow file

2003-12-01 Thread Christian Storch
- Original Message - From: "LeVA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > htpasswd -m shadow.ftp user > htpasswd without '-m' works for apache 1.3.26 & proftpd 1.2.4, with '-m' it doesn't! (both actual version from woody) Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: How efficient is mounting /usr ro?

2003-10-17 Thread Christian Storch
Yes, a very sophisticated kind of definition. But what about the small gap between theory and practice? Now here we're discussing about 'real life'. So I think security and availability represent to basic independend points of discussion. Security in a sense of preventing of bad impact from outsi

Re: How efficient is mounting /usr ro?

2003-10-17 Thread Christian Storch
Yes, a very sophisticated kind of definition. But what about the small gap between theory and practice? Now here we're discussing about 'real life'. So I think security and availability represent to basic independend points of discussion. Security in a sense of preventing of bad impact from outsi

RE: trouble

2003-10-13 Thread Christian Storch
ETIMEDOUT: TCPT_KEEP has expired ;) -Original Message- From: conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 6:45 PM To: debian-security@lists.debian.org Subject: trouble Socket Error: 10060

RE: trouble

2003-10-13 Thread Christian Storch
ETIMEDOUT: TCPT_KEEP has expired ;) -Original Message- From: conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 6:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: trouble Socket Error: 10060 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

RE: [sec] Re: Strange segmentation faults and Zombies

2003-09-18 Thread Christian Storch
>> - perl without tainting checks in cgi-bin? > >what exactly do you mean? how can i do/check that? > use '#!/usr/local/bin/perl -T' at the beginning of a perl cgi. Probably it would end in some 'tainted' errors you have to solve. For further details look into 'man perlsec'. Christian

RE: [sec] Re: Strange segmentation faults and Zombies

2003-09-18 Thread Christian Storch
>> - perl without tainting checks in cgi-bin? > >what exactly do you mean? how can i do/check that? > use '#!/usr/local/bin/perl -T' at the beginning of a perl cgi. Probably it would end in some 'tainted' errors you have to solve. For further details look into 'man perlsec'. Christian -- To U

RE: [sec] Re: Strange segmentation faults and Zombies

2003-09-18 Thread Christian Storch
ting checks in cgi-bin? etc. etc. Christian -Original Message- From: Markus Schabel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:23 PM To: debian-security@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [sec] Re: Strange segmentation faults and Zombies maximilian attems wrote: >

RE: [sec] Re: Strange segmentation faults and Zombies

2003-09-18 Thread Christian Storch
ting checks in cgi-bin? etc. etc. Christian -Original Message- From: Markus Schabel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sec] Re: Strange segmentation faults and Zombies maximilian attems wrote: > On Thu, 18 Se

Re: Strange segmentation faults and Zombies

2003-09-18 Thread Christian Storch
Don't forget to try to find the potential hole first! Otherwise you could have a fast recurrence. Christian - Original Message - From: "Josh Carroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:12 AM Subject: Re: Strange segmentation faults and Zombies > Backup /etc an

Re: Strange segmentation faults and Zombies

2003-09-18 Thread Christian Storch
Don't forget to try to find the potential hole first! Otherwise you could have a fast recurrence. Christian - Original Message - From: "Josh Carroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:12 AM Subject: Re: Strange segmentation faults and Zombies

apache with umask 002

2003-06-25 Thread Christian Storch
Hello, did anybody know about security issues about changing umask for apache from 022 to 002? The reason is that we want to give ftp users write access to files generated by apache user. Thanks. Christian

apache with umask 002

2003-06-25 Thread Christian Storch
Hello, did anybody know about security issues about changing umask for apache from 022 to 002? The reason is that we want to give ftp users write access to files generated by apache user. Thanks. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

RE: PHP & imap-ssl support

2003-05-21 Thread Christian Storch
I don't think there would be another 'version' of the same package. But what error did you get while compiling? With or without --with-imap-ssl? I've a running environment for recompiling php4 (stable release) without any problems (though I've switched on more than 4.1 would allow ;). Christian

Spam

2003-05-16 Thread Christian Storch
Interesting. That mail has overcome spamassassin without any hits: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=4.0 tests=none version=2.53-lists.debian.org_2003_04_28 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-lists.debian.org_2003_04_28 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) Any options to get it?

Re: [work] Integrity of Debian packages

2003-03-07 Thread Christian Storch
> Maybe you should talk to the family of the 3300 people in the WTC that > died because the FBI, CIA > or Special Services didn't have or couldn't intercept the many mail, fax > and cell phone communications > that went between the cowards that flew planes into the buildings. > > You know, I fee

Re: [work] Integrity of Debian packages

2003-03-07 Thread Christian Storch
> Maybe you should talk to the family of the 3300 people in the WTC that > died because the FBI, CIA > or Special Services didn't have or couldn't intercept the many mail, fax > and cell phone communications > that went between the cowards that flew planes into the buildings. > > You know, I fee

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-08 Thread Christian Storch
What about cp /dev/sdx /dev/sdy It works very well on two identical drives - - perhaps when the second one is larger, too. You don't need any permissions. The result is really a clone including partition table! I used this from a floppy with a full version of cp. Christian > - Original Mess

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-08 Thread Christian Storch
What about cp /dev/sdx /dev/sdy It works very well on two identical drives - - perhaps when the second one is larger, too. You don't need any permissions. The result is really a clone including partition table! I used this from a floppy with a full version of cp. Christian > - Original Mess

RE: pop mail recommendations

2002-12-06 Thread Christian Storch
Look at brand new http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/cyrus21-imapd.html ssl included! Christian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 4:12 PM To: debian-security@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: pop mail recommendations .

RE: pop mail recommendations

2002-12-06 Thread Christian Storch
Why it did 'fell down .. with exim'? With a little bit more expense as usual cyrus 2.0.16 worked very fine with sendmail 8.12.2! regards, Christian -Original Message- From: Jeff AA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 1:48 PM To: debian-security@lists.debian.org Subj

RE: pop mail recommendations

2002-12-06 Thread Christian Storch
Look at brand new http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/cyrus21-imapd.html ssl included! Christian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: pop mail recommendations ... I'd suggest

RE: pop mail recommendations

2002-12-06 Thread Christian Storch
Why it did 'fell down .. with exim'? With a little bit more expense as usual cyrus 2.0.16 worked very fine with sendmail 8.12.2! regards, Christian -Original Message- From: Jeff AA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: pop m