Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
of the approach taken for apparmor is that all software *does* continue to work out of the box. If you found it otherwise, I think you should be filing a bug report against apparmor. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Why is su preserving the environment?

2009-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
should not be considered vulnerable > the same way? Because su does not attempt to control what commands are being run; if you can su to another user, you can run arbitrary commands as that user, which means there's no sense in trying to filter the environment. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Bug#311772: Fwd: Password leaks are security holes

2008-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
uldn't need to check the auth log for user errors but > could just trace the login process, crack shadow, write a > custom pam module or something similar to get your login > credentials. No, that's not true. The only added permission the 'adm' group has on Debi

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1266-1] New gnupg packages fix signature forgery

2007-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
fact that the security team made this statement means they were aware 1.4.6-2 was a candidate for inclusion in etch. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian security archive/updates b0rken???

2005-06-18 Thread Steve Langasek
SAs since then, though they may have done uploads that haven't yet been published (I wouldn't know, not having access to look on klecker). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Please allow drupal 4.5.3-1

2005-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:19:22AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:16:00PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote: > > > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 04:54 pm, Hilko Bengen wrote: > > > > Just a few hours ago, the Drupal project

Re: Please allow drupal 4.5.3-1

2005-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
ase team... He did contact the release team; unfortunately, the diff between 4.5.2 and 4.5.3 is rather large and I don't believe it's all security-related, so I think this will have to be left for the security team after all. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Security issue with 'elog' package

2005-05-03 Thread Steve Langasek
g addressed by the version currently in unstable. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: zip sarge's package vulnerable to CAN-2004-1010

2004-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 05:21:03PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Current CAN-2004-1010 was fixed on zip 2.30-8 but current sarge > version still vulnerable. This package need to be included on sarge to > solve it. It already has been. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer sign

Re: wget for sarge update

2004-10-03 Thread Steve Langasek
27;m likely to let the source age in unstable for a bit before pushing it in, since I don't have the time to fully review the changes directly. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Proposal for new Security subsection for non-US

2002-06-23 Thread Steve Langasek
stribute them effectively. Though rsync might make things nicer for end-users on low-speed connections, I think it'll be a long time before this archive will come anywhere near the bandwidth requirements for even a single site that publically mirrors unstable or testing. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpifHR7aTEMk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposal for new Security subsection for non-US

2002-06-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 06:24:39PM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 12:21:12AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I think it shouldn't be /too/ hard to find other developers interested > > in working on this... > For example, I intend in the near-ish fu

Re: Proposal for new Security subsection for non-US

2002-06-22 Thread Steve Langasek
regard to this sort of software. I think it shouldn't be /too/ hard to find other developers interested in working on this... Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FIX: Chunk fix for Apache 1.3.24 i386 .deb + source .dsc and .diff.gz available.

2002-06-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello Matthew, I'm a little confused as to why you're cc:ing me on these messages? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:20:56PM +1200, Matthew Grant wrote: > Source and an i386 .deb are now up on: > http://people.debian.org/~grantma >

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 122-1] New zlib & other packages fix buffer overflow

2002-03-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:18:34PM +1300, John Morton wrote: > On Tuesday 12 March 2002 15:52, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Doesnt dpkg also compile with a static zlib? Why does it not make > > > this list? > > What Internet-accessible port are you running dpkg on? :)

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 122-1] New zlib & other packages fix buffer overflow

2002-03-11 Thread Steve Langasek
Doesnt dpkg also compile with a static zlib? Why does it not make > this list? What Internet-accessible port are you running dpkg on? :) dpkg doesn't normally run on a network port, so exploiting it doesn't get you local access unless you already have it; and it's not sui

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 122-1] New zlib & other packages fix buffer overflow

2002-03-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:18:34PM +1300, John Morton wrote: > On Tuesday 12 March 2002 15:52, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Doesnt dpkg also compile with a static zlib? Why does it not make > > > this list? > > What Internet-accessible port are you running dp

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 122-1] New zlib & other packages fix buffer overflow

2002-03-11 Thread Steve Langasek
Doesnt dpkg also compile with a static zlib? Why does it not make > this list? What Internet-accessible port are you running dpkg on? :) dpkg doesn't normally run on a network port, so exploiting it doesn't get you local access unless you already have it; and it's not suid, so