Re: Bug#496851: yelp: does not correctly handle format strings for certain error messages

2008-08-27 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008, Michael Gilbert wrote: > what about a getting a fix for this issue into stable? it doesn't affect stable -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFH: Insecure directory creation?

2006-12-24 Thread Loïc Minier
at's what I took as an example in the upstream thread as well: overwriting /etc/passwd is a local DoS. You write "create the needed directories", but if the program fails when the directory exists, this means that it isn't exploitable? -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Forget your stupid theme park! I'm gonna make my own! With hookers! And blackjack! In fact, forget the theme park!" -- Bender -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFH: Insecure directory creation?

2006-12-23 Thread Loïc Minier
ach/tmp/centos-4-i386-os/libX11-1.0.3-6.centos4/libX11-1.0.3-6.centos4.src.rpm (here centos-4-i386-os is the chroot name and libX11-1.0.3-6 the source package) And mach will also copy the spec file to hand to rpmbuild into: /var/tmp/mach/centos-4-i386-os/libX11-1.0.3-6.centos4/libX11.spec -- Loïc

RFH: Insecure directory creation?

2006-12-22 Thread Loïc Minier
ailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=31117825&forum_id=35925 ... but I failed convincing them that there is some security risk. Would someone be so kind to either correct me or to help me word why this is a bad idea? Thanks, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Forget your stu

Re: Security status of mozilla-* packages

2006-04-20 Thread Loïc Minier
s/2006-April/thread.html -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You can gtk_main_run, but you can't gtk_widget_hide." --danw, 19-jul-04 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
t's painful. :( -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
o CD burning, and metadata editing. > > There's *nothing* in that description (which is Rhythmbox' package) that > implies that Rhythmbox provides music sharing capabilities. Is there? Of course, you didn't imagine for a second that the description wasn't updated s

Short summary (Was: avahi-daemon)

2006-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
ng committee as mstone puts it. Other technical enhancements can of course be proposed via the BTS. Cheers, [1] This might sound harsh, but it really isn't, I think it's the role of that committee. -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
only by a limited > number of users overweighs the possible security implications of another > open port, I think we really cannot come to a consensus in this point. It's exactly the way you put, it, we can not come close to a consensus by comparing apples to oranges, securit

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
e default Debian install does *not* > setup a firewall or configure one at all after installation. I wonder why a > default GNOME install does *not* install 'firestarter' (a GTK-based firewall > configuration tool) Feature-bloat? (grin) I suggested iptables because all people in

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:36:38PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > > This is a desktop machine, it should permit sharing of files on your > > local network. DNS servers have their port 53 open to respond to name > >

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:36:38PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > >Do you have any other solution permitting the same functionalities, but > >without the listening port? > No. If someone wants that functionality than that's how

Re: Internal trusted networks? (was Re: avahi-daemon)

2006-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
behind a NAT with responsible coworkers than connected to the Internet directly, without any firewall, and that's where desktops sit most of the time. Bye, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Current Earth status: NOT DESTROYED -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 03 Mar 2006, Loïc Minier wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > True. But that requires a broken kernel, which we patch regularly as a > > > security procedure

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006, Joey Hess wrote: > Standard Desktop task installs do not install Recommends anyway, so > rhythmbox does not pull in avahi-daemon in those situations and you need > to deal with that somehow. It's a but in task installation then. -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PRO

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-03 Thread Loïc Minier
o support avahi security-wise, and would patch it in the case of a knwon vulnerability. -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Current Earth status: NOT DESTROYED -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-03 Thread Loïc Minier
ms out-of-the box and does so without > specifying nodev, nosuid ? Think just before that: it's not only the mount options, it's the simple mounting which is risky. It's not music sharing, it's listening on the network. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-03 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Fri, Mar 03, 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 03 Mar 2006, Loïc Minier wrote: > > If music sharing is a questionable feature to you, you don't need to > > discuss this further, you're obviously the security guy, talking in > >

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-03 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi there, For people on the list interested in the discussion, Michael Stone has filed #355064, where the "discussion" went on. Bye, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Current Earth status: NOT DESTROYED -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-03 Thread Loïc Minier
onable basis for a default > configuration. Right, people running Debian or Ubuntu at home are typically not interested in sharing music between computers at home. I completely agree with the managed network part, but in such a network: - would you have music players installed? - wouldn't you filter out any other port than HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP? Cheers, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Current Earth status: NOT DESTROYED -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-03 Thread Loïc Minier
if the rhytmbox-power-user will > press the button "browse for music"... Well, no: that's the opposite of plug'n'play. See, if you're USB stick contains a malicious vfat file system, it gets automatically mounted nevertheless. It's a feature. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Current Earth status: NOT DESTROYED -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-03-02 Thread Loïc Minier
that to be simple. You can't cut every feature out because only 10% of the users use it. It's not like you're running Rhythmbox on a firewall, and iptables is still there, you can remove avahi, you can configure it not to start etc. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Current Earth status: NOT DESTROYED -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-02-22 Thread Loïc Minier
hat's less common) - administrative interface for wifi APs Cheers, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Current Earth status: NOT DESTROYED -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-02-22 Thread Loïc Minier
like "xyz is a service that does blah > blah, > ... For most users this service should bind only to a local area network > and not to the internet. (If you need this service at all) Do you want > to bind to all interface?" - with no as default! In the case of a discovery dae

Re: avahi-daemon

2006-02-22 Thread Loïc Minier
d play: closing all doors and requiring people to open N doors to use a high-level feature such as music browsing is *not* intuitive. Parts of this discussion are available in #349478. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Current Earth status: NOT DESTROYED -- To UNSUBS

Re: eth interface with no IP

2005-11-04 Thread Loïc Minier
e in /etc/init.d/networking but I really don't like this > approach. I don't think that it's even the right thing to do cause of > upgrade issues. I think you can use this instead: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet manual up ifconfig $IFACE up down ifconfig $IFACE down --

Re: Version of 'cvs' in security archive

2005-09-13 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Tue, Sep 13, 2005, Sam Morris wrote: > Is the version in stable too high, or is the version in stable/updates > too low? :) I think packages never leave from security.d.o. Bye, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE