Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:43:38PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > One reason is security: > > it's relatively easy for an intruder to install a kernel module based > > rootkit, and then hide her processes, files or connections. > isn't it security-by-obscurity? No, that's stretching the defini

H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Daniel Husand
Hi, does anyone know if its possible to setup this:   Clients - NAT - Internet - NAT - Clients with iptelephony without opening your NAT servers to the world. Any software suggestions / tricks / ideas?     -- Daniel

H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Daniel Husand
Hi, does anyone know if its possible to setup this: Clients - NAT - Internet - NAT - Clients with iptelephony without opening your NAT servers to the world. Any software suggestions / tricks / ideas? (sorry about that, just reinstalled and forgot that outlook uses HTML as default) -- Daniel

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Daniel Husand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, does anyone know if its possible to setup this: > > Clients - NAT - Internet - NAT - Clients with iptelephony without opening > your NAT servers to the world. > Any software suggestions / tricks / ideas? You can use the ip_conntrack_h323 module

Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> of proportion... Some things in security _have_ to be obscure. Your > password, for example. Or the primes used to generate your PGP private There's a difference between 'obscure' and 'secret'. All you gain by removing kernel-loading capability from your kernel is to force cracker to search memo

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> You can use the ip_conntrack_h323 module from > netfilters patch-o-matic or a tunnel (ipsec, cipe, > ...) between the to networks. Last I heard about this, this module was rather crude and could cause corruption to passing packets. If situation has changed i'd be happy to hear about it. -- Dar

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
a vpn between the 2 lans / clients On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:51AM +0200, Daniel Husand wrote: > Hi, does anyone know if its possible to setup this: > > Clients - NAT - Internet - NAT - Clients with iptelephony without opening > your NAT servers to the world. > Any software suggestions / tric

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:51AM +0200, Daniel Husand wrote: > Hi, does anyone know if its possible to setup this: > > Clients - NAT - Internet - NAT - Clients with iptelephony without > opening your NAT servers to the world. Any software suggestions / > tricks / ideas? > I need to do this al

Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-02 Thread Tim Nicholas
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:46:52AM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > of proportion... Some things in security _have_ to be obscure. Your > > password, for example. Or the primes used to generate your PGP private > There's a difference between 'obscure' and 'secret'. This is true. > All you gain

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:44:56AM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > > I need to do this also, so I prepared a backport to woody of > > opengate-proxy, an h323 proxy present in sid. I will test this soon > > (this week probably). > > > > > > deb http://debian.home-dn.net/woody opengate-proxy/ > > Why,

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 at 09:35:08AM +0200, Daniel Husand wrote: > (sorry about that, just reinstalled and forgot that outlook uses HTML as > default) Fortunately, Outlook is a compliant (good Lord, something from MS being compliant?) MUA and it makes a multi-part message. One part clear, the other

Re: Is there a security update for the new sendmail exploit in woody?

2003-04-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:57:35AM -0700, Tom Clements wrote: > --Sendmail Users Face Second Major Security Flaw > (31 March 2003) Yes, it's on its way. Expect it very soon. I think the updated packages have all (or almost all) completed building. > Most versions of sendmail do not adequately c

Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:46:52AM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > of proportion... Some things in security _have_ to be obscure. Your > > password, for example. Or the primes used to generate your PGP private > There's a difference between 'obscure' and 'secret'. In this context, I'd suggest

removing portsentry routes

2003-04-02 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Anyway to tell portsentry to remove all routes it added? or to expire added deny routes after a period of time? -- = = Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the = = right things.- Peter Drucker

RES: removing portsentry routes

2003-04-02 Thread Samuel Lucas Vaz de Mello
Hi! I use iptables to block hosts denied by portsentry (you can configure it in porsentry.conf; KILL_ROUTE="/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -s $TARGET$ -j DROP"). Also, i have a script for setting up my firewall rules. All that i do to expire denied hosts was configure cron to flush my firewal

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Daniel Husand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, does anyone know if its possible to setup this: > > Clients - NAT - Internet - NAT - Clients with iptelephony without opening your NAT > servers to the world. > Any software suggestions / tricks / ideas? You can use the ip_conntrack_h323 module

Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> of proportion... Some things in security _have_ to be obscure. Your > password, for example. Or the primes used to generate your PGP private There's a difference between 'obscure' and 'secret'. All you gain by removing kernel-loading capability from your kernel is to force cracker to search memo

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> You can use the ip_conntrack_h323 module from > netfilters patch-o-matic or a tunnel (ipsec, cipe, > ...) between the to networks. Last I heard about this, this module was rather crude and could cause corruption to passing packets. If situation has changed i'd be happy to hear about it. -- Dar

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
a vpn between the 2 lans / clients On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:51AM +0200, Daniel Husand wrote: > Hi, does anyone know if its possible to setup this: > > Clients - NAT - Internet - NAT - Clients with iptelephony without opening your NAT > servers to the world. > Any software suggestions / tric

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:51AM +0200, Daniel Husand wrote: > Hi, does anyone know if its possible to setup this: > > Clients - NAT - Internet - NAT - Clients with iptelephony without > opening your NAT servers to the world. Any software suggestions / > tricks / ideas? > I need to do this al

Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-02 Thread Tim Nicholas
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:46:52AM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > of proportion... Some things in security _have_ to be obscure. Your > > password, for example. Or the primes used to generate your PGP private > There's a difference between 'obscure' and 'secret'. This is true. > All you gain

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:44:56AM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > > I need to do this also, so I prepared a backport to woody of > > opengate-proxy, an h323 proxy present in sid. I will test this soon > > (this week probably). > > > > > > deb http://debian.home-dn.net/woody opengate-proxy/ > > Why,

Re: H323 Gateways

2003-04-02 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 at 09:35:08AM +0200, Daniel Husand wrote: > (sorry about that, just reinstalled and forgot that outlook uses HTML as > default) Fortunately, Outlook is a compliant (good Lord, something from MS being compliant?) MUA and it makes a multi-part message. One part clear, the other

Re: Is there a security update for the new sendmail exploit in woody?

2003-04-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:57:35AM -0700, Tom Clements wrote: > --Sendmail Users Face Second Major Security Flaw > (31 March 2003) Yes, it's on its way. Expect it very soon. I think the updated packages have all (or almost all) completed building. > Most versions of sendmail do not adequately c

Re: [Fwd: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels]

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:46:52AM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > of proportion... Some things in security _have_ to be obscure. Your > > password, for example. Or the primes used to generate your PGP private > There's a difference between 'obscure' and 'secret'. In this context, I'd suggest

removing portsentry routes

2003-04-02 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Anyway to tell portsentry to remove all routes it added? or to expire added deny routes after a period of time? -- = = Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the = = right things.- Peter Drucker

RES: removing portsentry routes

2003-04-02 Thread Samuel Lucas Vaz de Mello
Hi! I use iptables to block hosts denied by portsentry (you can configure it in porsentry.conf; KILL_ROUTE="/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -s $TARGET$ -j DROP"). Also, i have a script for setting up my firewall rules. All that i do to expire denied hosts was configure cron to flush my firewall