Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-29 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Matt Zimmerman: > The machine which builds security updates for alpha is currently > offline. I'm a bit amazed you depend on only one machine to build those packages... Well for people that have an alpha and didn't compile it yet for their selves, I put a deb at: http://www.famdijkstra.org/~tdyk

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:56:41AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > As the advisory recommended, I 'apt-get upgrade'd my stable boxen, but I > noticed that on my alpha server the only thing that was updated where the > docs. Indeed the advisory doesn't talk about a new version for alpha. Is > there a

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-29 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:29:33 -0700 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - > Debian Security Advisory DSA 532-1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ > Matt Zimmer

Re: [d-security] Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-28 Thread elijah wright
> * elijah wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040727 19:40]: > > and it probably would have been fine, if you'd been running a stock > > config. > > If things only have to be fine when using a stock config, why not > abolish all those limiting rules about /etc and just disallow the use to > cope with it

Re: [d-security] Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* elijah wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040727 19:40]: > and it probably would have been fine, if you'd been running a stock > config. If things only have to be fine when using a stock config, why not abolish all those limiting rules about /etc and just disallow the use to cope with it directly and k

Re: [d-security] Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-27 Thread elijah wright
> That's my point: I did not do "apt-get install", I did "apt-get > upgrade". If this had been a fresh install, I would agree with you > completely, but not in the case of a security update. and it probably would have been fine, if you'd been running a stock config. with great power comes great

Re: [d-security] Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-27 Thread Rhesa Rozendaal
Christian Hammers wrote: Oh, come on, if you "apt-get install" the Apache SSL module then you really can expect it to actually get installed in the httpd.conf :-) (Otherwise hundrets of normal users would complain that SSL does not work although they "installed" it. So at least in my opinion the b

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:05:22AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > It is unfortunate that this caused a problem for you, but it was not the > resul of the security update. The woody Apache packages have always worked > this way, and will modify /etc/apache/httpd.conf. It is worth noting that as of

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:01:10PM +0200, Rhesa Rozendaal wrote: > The main reason is that it adds the line > > LoadModule ssl_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_ssl.so > > to the apache config file /etc/apache/httpd.conf. > > Here's why this breaks my setup: I run two instances of apache, a

Re: [d-security] Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:42:19PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > In my case, the frontend handles SSL connections. Its config file is > > /etc/apache/ht-light.conf. > > The backend instance uses the original filename /etc/apache/httpd.conf. > > The frontend is already bound to port 443. The

Re: [d-security] Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-27 Thread Adam ENDRODI
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:42:19PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:01:10PM +0200, Rhesa Rozendaal wrote: > > In my case, the frontend handles SSL connections. Its config file is > > /etc/apache/ht-light.conf. > > The backend instance uses the original filename /etc/

Re: [d-security] Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-27 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Rhesa On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:01:10PM +0200, Rhesa Rozendaal wrote: > In my case, the frontend handles SSL connections. Its config file is > /etc/apache/ht-light.conf. > The backend instance uses the original filename /etc/apache/httpd.conf. > The frontend is already bound to port 443. T

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-27 Thread Radu Spineanu
Rhesa Rozendaal wrote: . My advice would be to _not_ add the LoadModule line to the apache config: if this security update needs installing, it is very likely that SSL is already configured correctly. At the very least, make it a question that I can answer yes or no to. Perhaps a better solutio

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 532-1] New libapache-mod-ssl packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-07-27 Thread Rhesa Rozendaal
Matt Zimmerman wrote: - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 532-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman July 22nd, 2004 http://www.d