Re: RFC: proposed fix for CVE-2018-19518 in uw-imap

2018-12-28 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Roberto I have checked your patch and the described problem and I think it looks good. As I understand the reason why you count the number of tokens instead of checking for a space in the hostname is that is easier to do that way as you do not need to make an advanced parse mechanism. To my kn

Re: various security issues in VNC related packages

2019-10-30 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi I agree that the VNC situation in Debian is sub-optimal. Frankly speaking not just in Debian. This popular software has diverged quite a lot with lot of packages sharing similar code-base. I had a brief look at vnc4 as well. It does not seem to share the same code base as libvncserver so it sh

Re: various security issues in VNC related packages

2019-11-04 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Mike Please go ahead. I will be off for some time due to a planned surgery so it would be very good if you can fix this. // Ola On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 08:55, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi Ola, > > On Mi 30 Okt 2019 21:20:50 CET, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > > Hi > >

Vulnerability in pcs or is it in more generic code?

2022-09-05 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi fellow Debian LTS and Debian Security memebers When triaging the packages for LTS I looked into the package pcs. I saw that it was already added to DSA needed so I have added it to DLA needed as well. However when reading the correction for it I started to think that the vulnerability may not b

Re: Vulnerability in pcs or is it in more generic code?

2022-09-09 Thread Ola Lundqvist
ll insecure. Cheers // Ola On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 03:09, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 21:38 +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > > I agree that it is good to fix the pcs package, but shouldn't we fix > > the default umask in general? > > I would argue that the d

Re: Vulnerability in pcs or is it in more generic code?

2022-09-10 Thread Ola Lundqvist
in pcs only and the generic code is not vulnerable since the intention was not to use it for internal communication without further authentication or similar. Cheers // Ola On Sat, 10 Sept 2022 at 03:36, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 2022-09-09 at 22:41 +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > >

Re: c-ares, CVE-2023-31147, CVE-2023-31124

2023-06-23 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Anton, all Well even if there are some systems affected I must say that if someone have removed urandom the behavior described is expected. I mean /dev/urandom is there for a reason. And yes there are better functions than rand() but I can hardly see this as a vulnerability. Or well it is, but