Re: idea for improving security

2003-05-08 Thread Michael Bergbauer
On Wed May 07, 2003 at 03:3721PM -0400, Robert B Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, 7 May 2003 08:53:40 +0200 Michael Bergbauer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you > > think SSH (or any other component) is not trustworthy, just look for > > alternatives (or create them yourself). > > what would be a

Re: SSL proxy server

2003-05-08 Thread Costas Magos
Thank you all guys. I now have enough info to start. :-) ~kmag

Source MAC Address DoS

2003-05-08 Thread jiade
I got arp storm in my network(30 PCs and some WLAN devices), about 10,000 arp requests per second, no responses,lasting for severalminutes,all these arp requests have the same content which looks very strange: SRC DSTinfo 0060e0017d960060f0017d96 who has 192.1

Re: Have I been hacked?

2003-05-08 Thread Sebastian Hoehn
Hi, you get this message when you use different names for a machine, for example the ip and the machine's name. One of them is saved in known_hosts, the other one causes this message! Sebastian Ian Goodall wrote: Thanks everyone for your help. It must be his computer as all the computers I

RE: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-08 Thread Rudolph van Graan
Hi again, Thank you for all the feedback and sorry for the controversy of stating that "mime-support" does not seem like a security update. Actually, I usually will allow the update, for I don't always have the time to try to stay up to date on all the security issues. I simply used this as an exa

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-08 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Rudolph van Graan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What I would have like to see was something like this: [Please think of > this in terms of "stable" or "testing"] apt-listchanges. It displays the new changelog entries from the debs before installing them, but has to download them first, so no b

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-08 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Thursday, 2003-05-08 at 10:53:54 +0200, Rudolph van Graan wrote: > What I would have like to see was something like this: [Please think of > this in terms of "stable" or "testing"] > Package Class > > apt Secu

RE: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-08 Thread Rudolph van Graan
Hi, > apt-listchanges. It displays the new changelog > entries from the debs before installing them, but > has to download them first, so no bandwidth > saving. > > The only (and incomplete) other way I see is > reading the DSAs, but this doesn't apply to > testing. But if you run testing, you ca

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Peter Holm
On Thu, 08 May 2003 01:30:15 +0200, in linux.debian.security you wrote: >kernel. The ptrace bug is not the only problem as there are other >security problems (for example in the netfilter code) that have never >been fixed in stable. could you please speek out about this? Where can I find more i

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Markus Kolb
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 14:53, Peter Holm wrote: > Hi, > > may I be allowed to ask some questions? > > I am a little bit confused about the latest discussions on the ptrace > kernel bug. [...] > Why isn´t there a security warning about that ptrace bug? [...] Well the most problem is that Marcelo

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Peter Holm
>By the way there are people not following security lists and they that was my situation. there must be hundreds or thousands of people out there, which also do have just little time for administering their debian installs and rely on security announcement list and apt-get. Also, if I understa

security problem in debian netfilter code?

2003-05-08 Thread Peter Holm
>kernel. The ptrace bug is not the only problem as there are other >security problems (for example in the netfilter code) that have never >been fixed in stable. could you please speek out about this? Where can I find more info about this? Where can i find patches? Which kernel-source/image p

Re: security problem in debian netfilter code?

2003-05-08 Thread Sebastian
Am Don, 2003-05-08 um 15.52 schrieb Peter Holm: > >kernel. The ptrace bug is not the only problem as there are other > >security problems (for example in the netfilter code) that have never > >been fixed in stable. > > could you please speek out about this? You can find documentation about secur

Re: Apt-get only security patches

2003-05-08 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Thursday 08 May 2003 03:30 am, Rudolph van Graan wrote: > Hi, > > Rolf Kutz wrote: > > apt-listchanges. It displays the new changelog > > entries from the debs before installing them, but > > has to download them first, so no bandwidth > > saving. > > This is almost exactly what I looked for - i

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
The security team has already released two DSA's on the ptrace issue. Those would be DSA 270 and DSA 276. Why they have not put priority on fixing it for the i386 architecture I do not know, but I do know that modifying the kernel in stable on i386 is a monstrous problem, as doing it right means yo

Strange Load Average patterns

2003-05-08 Thread Rudolph van Graan
Hi again, I'm struggling trying to get to the root of a possible problem with woody or the kernel. One of my up to date production machines show a very strange load average problem. Basically, the machine gradually builds up to a high LA and then abruptly at 6:30 in the morning this stops. It then

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Oliver Hitz
On 08 May 2003, Markus Kolb wrote: > There are patched Debian kernel images with version 2.4.18-7 by the > kernel-image maintainer Herbet Xu but not in official debian package > trees. Just don't know where to find Herbert's packages. Perhaps > someone can post the place! You can find patched

Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Nils Juergens
On Thu, 08.05.03, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fixing it for the i386 architecture I do not know, but I do know that > modifying the kernel in stable on i386 is a monstrous problem, as doing > it right means you have to: > > - rebuild all the different kernel images > - rebuild all the

Re: [mailinglists] Strange Load Average patterns

2003-05-08 Thread Philipp Steinkrüger
Hi Rudolph, that might very well be a problem with the kernel since you still run a 2.2 kernel. any chance the system has IDE-Disks ? i am using a syslog server and it was running a 2.2.20 kernel. with this kernel the load was pretty high. after i upgraded to 2.4 kernel series the problem immediat

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2003-05-08 Thread marco
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Re: Strange Load Average patterns

2003-05-08 Thread funky soul
hi Rudolph, On Thu, 8 May 2003 19:33:40 +0200 "Rudolph van Graan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm struggling trying to get to the root of a possible problem with > woody or the kernel. One of my up to date production machines show a > very strange load average problem. Basically, the machine gra

chattr +a in /var/log files

2003-05-08 Thread Juan Carlos Silla.
Hello *: I would like set 'a' bit for files in /var/log/ but it makes imposible to logrotate to rotate log files normaly. Is enough to set chattr -a in prerotate script? How useful is set 'a' bit for log files? No much I think, if an intruder gain root access... he could unset append

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2003-05-08 Thread Computing Services
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Re: Please clarifiy: kernel-sources / ptracebug / debian security announcenments

2003-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Nils Juergens wrote: > > fixing it for the i386 architecture I do not know, but I do know that > > modifying the kernel in stable on i386 is a monstrous problem, as doing > > it right means you have to: > > > > - rebuild all the different kernel images > > - rebuild all the modules packages extern

Re: Have I been hacked?

2003-05-08 Thread Robbert Helling
hmm sorry but i didn't watched this tread but i just want to add some stuff first make a backup of your disk ( if you might want to research it later on ) or you might want to toy with a copy of the backup leaving the system in state it was. backups can be used as evidence. Or you can monitor th

Re: Have I been hacked?

2003-05-08 Thread Halil Demirezen
Mayba, I can add my comments here. recently, a kernel bug exploited and linux kernel developers patched it already. ptrace-kmod exploit. A local user can run suid shell with just using an exploit. Maybe hacking -- if there is-- may be done via this too. But, according to me too, backups are goo

Re: Have I been hacked?

2003-05-08 Thread Halil Demirezen
Maybe, I can add my comments here. recently, a kernel bug exploited and linux kernel developers patched it already. ptrace-kmod exploit. A local user can run suid shell with just using an exploit. Maybe hacking -- if there is-- may be done via this too. But, according to me too, backups are goo

Re: Have I been hacked?

2003-05-08 Thread Halil Demirezen
Maybe, I can add my comments here. recently, a kernel bug exploited and linux kernel developers patched it already. ptrace-kmod exploit. A local user can run suid shell with just using an exploit. Maybe hacking -- if there is-- may be done via this too. But, according to me too, backups are goo