Re: Upcoming etch point release

2010-05-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam D. Barratt wrote: > The next point release for the "etch" oldstable distribution, 4.0r9, is > scheduled for Saturday, 22nd May. I guess this is rather a plain "formality" than an endorsement by the project that this release is an up-to-date versi

Re: UNS: Debian 4.0 Upgrade Path

2010-01-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Thiemo, Thiemo Nagel wrote: > However if that is the case, I wonder if oldstable support could be > extended for some more time. > > I know that all the work is done by volunteers and I'm very grateful for > what they do. Still I think that esp

Re: Debian 4.0 Upgrade Path

2010-01-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thiemo Nagel wrote: > I'm not talking of an upgrade in the sense of 'apt-get dist-upgrade', > we'll be doing fresh installations with the new version. However, it > would save both administrators and users a huge amount of work, if we > could deploy s

Re: Debian 4.0 Upgrade Path

2010-01-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thiemo Nagel wrote: > having read your email concerning the termination of etch security > support, I'm looking for an upgrade path for our installation of ~100 > machines. - - read and follow the release notes [1] - - upgrade one machine and record

Re: Installing plesk 9.3 on debian lenny

2010-01-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
seyyed ali zahiri wrote: > I have tried to install plesk 9.3 on debian Lenny but i got some > errors. the log file is below: Why do you think this is relevant to debian-secur...@d.o ? I will try to answer you post on the implicit assumption that you promise to *never* *ever* arbitrarily cross-pos

Re: [DSA 1870-1] New pidgin packages fix arbitrary code execution

2009-08-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Nico Golde wrote: > Oergs, just one time I forgot to check the binary packages > and now this. Rebuild is on it's way. Thanks for the notice. > For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted. Please don't forget to double-rot13 the source code for added extra security. 8-

Re: security support for etch?

2009-08-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vladislav Kurz wrote: > I'd like to ask the security team, how long do they plan to support > etch (oldstable)? I remember that when etch was released, they > announced support for sarge will continue for one year. I haven seen > such announcement when

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1809-1] New Linux 2.6.26 packages fix several vulnerabilities

2009-06-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hallo list, dann frazier wrote: > -- > Debian Security Advisory DSA-1809-1secur...@debian.org > http://www.debian.org/security/ dann frazier > Jun 01, 2009http://ww

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Guntram Trebs wrote: > Hello, > > i use aptitude, i would do it this way: > > - call aptitude and look up, if you have a section named "Obsolete and > Locally Created Packages". Normaly this section should not be visible as > its empty > - remove (better comment out) the backports-line in /etc/a

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1747-1] New glib2.0 packages fix arbitrary code execution

2009-03-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Holger Levsen wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-security-announce.png Is that really on the order of hundreds of DSAs per month (up to some 10/day)? Then I'd miss a lot of them... ;-( I rather think that there is something wrong with the left y-scale. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUB

Re: Secure Remote Application and OS Deployment?

2009-03-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hello, Chip Panarchy wrote: > Been doing a lot of research of late into the installation of Windows > over a network (using the Unattended BootCD and a Network Share). Also > a little into RIS (WDS). > > I am interested in how this could be done securely. To summarise what > I would like to know,

Re: basically security of linux

2009-01-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > What about hardlinking the suid-root binaries to a hidden location, waiting > for a security hole to be found/fixed, and then running the old binary to > exploit the hole? IIRC, a hard link is the same file called t

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1680-1] New clamav packages fix potential code execution

2008-12-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mapper ict department wrote: > DSA-1680-1 clamav -- buffer overflow, stack consumption > Date Reported: 04 Dec 2008 > In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 505134, Bug 507624. > In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-5050, CVE-2008-5314. [snip] > We have the volatile archive in the apt-get sources l

Re: [Secure-testing-team] Security update for Debian Testing - 2008-12-06

2008-12-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 11:13:41AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >>> It turns out that ftp2.de.debian.org is not up to date any more. >> That's not directly related to security work, though given that lenny >> fixes are announced through migration from unstable to testing I

Re: Security update for Debian Testing - 2008-12-06

2008-12-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering, why I don't receive any testing security updates any more. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > Migrated from unstable: > === > cups 1.3.8-1lenny4: > CVE-2008-5286: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2

Re: Encrypt file while you are using it

2008-11-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Obi wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 05:30:46PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Manuel Gomez wrote: >>>> Now i am using Truecrypt, but when i mount the encrypted directory it's >>>> vulnerable. I want to m

Re: Encrypt file while you are using it

2008-11-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manuel Gomez wrote: > Hi, i would like to maintain encrypt an archive in all moment, so i If it is to remain encrypted in any moment in time, you should just use a very complicated password and forget it immediately. Your data should remain encrypted

Re: Study: Attacks on package managers (inclusing apt)

2008-07-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-17 16:46, Daniel Leidert wrote: > I'm sorry, if this has already been brought up. I did not find a posting > regarding this study, so I hereby start this thread). http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00321.html Johannes -BE

Re: dowkd.pl via Package

2008-05-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-14 12:53, Hideki Yamane wrote: > And if we would get it via package, when dowkd.pl is updated we can know > about it automatically (with apt-get :-) I guess ssh-vulnkey from the updated openssh packages might do what you ask for. HTH, Jo

Re: TR: How to verify package integrity after they have been downloaded?

2008-04-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julien Stuby wrote on 2008-04-05 22:46: > That seems the best way. The seconde step will be to use an another > OS that the first to reduce even more attack surface from readed > disk. > > -- Julien > > -Message d'origine- De : Alexander Kono

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1523-1] New ikiwiki packages fix cross-site scripting

2008-03-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:51:09PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in >> version 2.31.1. > > Ehm, that's strange somehow since unstable, testing and even >

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1378-1] New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities

2007-09-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 28 September 2007 11:18, Jan Wagner wrote: >>> Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub. >>> You shouldn't call /sbin/update-grub. Please call /usr/sbin/update-grub >>> instead! >> you need to modify /etc

Re: secure installation

2007-09-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: >> Did you actually tried update-notifier on KDE? > > Yes, it was installed on my system for some months, but it never > informed me about any update. (I get inf

Re: secure installation

2007-08-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:29:10AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> - From the documentation I gather, that update-manager would probably work >> on kde, but that it just checks, if the pack

[OT] Warranty was Re: secure installation

2007-08-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jose Marrero wrote: > I believe Microsoft software comes with NO WARRANTY as well. > Hell, we should read the small print on all software... It does come with a warranty, at least in Germany/Europe. Everything you *pay* for has by law two years of war

Re: secure installation

2007-08-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > I didn't say what you put here and do not have any intention to start a > flamware. I'm just saying that Debian KDE users with no update-notifier > *might* > not be *as* aware of available security updates as us

Re: secure installation

2007-08-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 09:00:47AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Not exactly true. Debian adds security repositories to apt's sources, >> that's true. But it does _not_ automatic

Re: secure installation

2007-08-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:01:54AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> PS 2: While we are at it: debian by default also does not install or >> enable an automated system to install security upd

Re: secure installation

2007-08-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pat wrote: > Well, considering there are those of us who want to see linux become > an operating system for the average person, and I do believe this is > the ultimate goal of many linux communities. Agreed. But since debian is arguably more secure w

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1270-1] New OpenOffice.org packages fix several vulnerabilities

2007-03-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Martin Schulze: > >> Package: openoffice.org >> Vulnerability : several >> Problem type : local (remote) >> Debian-specific: no >> CVE IDs: CVE-2007-0002 CVE-2007-0238 CVE-2007-0239 > > Does this also cover CVE-2007-1466? No -- according to http://sec

Re: Firefox on testing hijacked by http://www.megago.com/l/?

2006-09-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Torsten Sadowski wrote: Unluckily its not that easy. The homepage preference is not altered and points to the right site. Add a new user to your system and check, where his homepage points to. Set it to a site that you know that works (maybe google.com). If this works, the problem might be y

Strange outbound connections

2006-02-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I have a web- and mail server that shows strange outbound connections. If I llserv:~# cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack I get lines like this (one line, wraped by e-mail editor): tcp 6 362459 ESTABLISHED src=my.server.s.ip dst=84.145.105.4 sport=80 dport=1575 [UNREPLIED] src=84.145.105.4 dst=my

Re: hardening checkpoints

2005-12-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Alvin Oga wrote: italians just passed a law that all isp and internet cafe etc are required to ask for ID of "ALL" visitors and users of their PCs and services it shouldnt matter to that if we reboot etc, etc... but it's their computers... and you might get stiffed with a fine/penalty if oyu do

Re: hardening checkpoints

2005-12-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
steve wrote: Le Mardi, 20 Décembre 2005 16.18, Michelle Konzack a écrit : But in ALL Internet Cafes I can use my own (selfmade) Debian Live-System with my prefered Desktop. In all Internet Cafes i get an IP via DHCP. Wrong. I was in Milano (Italy) a few month ago, and I wanted to do exactl

editor crashes regularly, loosing all data since last save

2005-12-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I'm sorry, if I'm just too bad at looking at the documentation or searching the archives. I am missing information as to what is a bug that would warrant a fix in stable. I filed two bug reports (#340699 and #325588) but nothing appears to be happening in order to get things fixed. Short sum