Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
SM> A while ago, the use of libpam-tmpdir was suggested in order to mitigate SM> some of these attacks. It would be nice to see it in use by default, some SM> day. SM> Obviously there will always be some programs that don't look at the SM> TMPDIR environment variable and directly use /tmp. write f

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
On 13:45 Mon 11 Aug , Joey Hess wrote: JH> Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: JH>> os-prober_1.17 os-prober /tmp/mounted-map (pipe) JH>> /tmp/raided-map (pipe) JH> os-prober writer to $OS_PROBER_

SCALE 7x is Coming!

2008-08-11 Thread Gareth J. Greenaway
Like a fine wine, SCALE continues to improve with age. The 7th Annual So Cal Linux Expo will be February 20-22, 2009. For 2009, the Expo will return to the Westin LAX Hotel, site of the 6th Expo. Because interest in Open Source Software is steadily growing, attendance at SCALE continues to also g

Re: Bug#494710: ITP: topgit -- Git patch queue manager

2008-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 01:18:35PM -0300, martin f krafft a écrit : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "martin f. krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: topgit > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Petr Baudis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://repo.

Re: Deprecating (and deactivation) of an archive feature?!

2008-08-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Joerg, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > currently our archive has the feature(?) that a source package in component a > (like main) can build a binary package in component b (like contrib).[1] > > Now, this feature is blocking (or making it way harder) to do some > database re-designs we want to do for

Re: feature: to add explanations of recommendations and suggestions dependencies

2008-08-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Le Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 06:36:35PM +0300, Shachar Or a écrit : >>> >>> What I am offering is the idea that package dependencies that are >>> reccomendations or suggestions must be explained. >> >> Hi, >> >> Before I re

Bug#494747: ITP: ocaml-gnuplot -- Plotting using gnuplot for OCaml

2008-08-11 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvain Le Gall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ocaml-gnuplot Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Christophe Troestler * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocaml-gnuplot/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: OCaml

Re: projectb users - we want you

2008-08-11 Thread Cameron Dale
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please login to merkel and add yourself to ~joerg/projectb.users (the > file is mode 666, so everyone with login is able to do it). Done. I'm surprised at the few entries after almost a week. Is no one using projectb, or i

Bug#494738: ITP: mtpsync -- Syncronize files/music with a MTP device

2008-08-11 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leandro Lucarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mtpsync Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Chris Debenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.adebenham.com/mtpsync/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Descriptio

ITP: deal.II -- Finite element library

2008-08-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: deal.II Version: 6.1.0 Author: Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann, Guido Kanschat License: QPL URL: http://dealii.org/ deal.II is a C++ class library for parallel solution of partial differential equations using adaptive finite elements. It interfaces

Re: Needs help: CJK Debian users will not be able to read PDF with poppler-data in default Debian Desktop in Lenny

2008-08-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Hideki Yamane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi list, > > I'm worry about CJK Debian users will not be able to read PDF with > poppler-data in default Debian Desktop environment. > > Now, in etch, if you want to view Japanese PDF file, you'll install > xpdf-japanese and cmap-adobe-japan1 and

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Joey Hess
Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > os-prober_1.17 os-prober > /tmp/mounted-map (pipe) > > /tmp/raided-map (pipe) os-prober writer to $OS_PROBER_TMP/{mounted-map.raided-map,etc}, which is created b

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:57:56 +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > Package: mplayer nws ppp twiki > Severity: grave > Tags: security > > This message about the error concerns a few packages at once. I've > tested all the packages on my Debian mirror. (post|pre)(inst|rm) and > config scripts we

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
JC>>> just by looking at the name. JC>> JC>> If program A writes file FILENAME and user1 and user2 can make (write) JC>> symlinks 'FILENAME' then name of program A is not important. JC>> JC> If that program is in a udeb, then user1 and user2 don't exist, so it's JC> not a security problem. Yes,

Bug#494710: ITP: topgit -- Git patch queue manager

2008-08-11 Thread martin f krafft
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "martin f. krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: topgit Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Petr Baudis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://repo.or.cz/w/topgit.git * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: sh Description

Re: Need g++-3.4 package in lenny

2008-08-11 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need older gcc and g++ as I have a lot of iostream.h in my code. If that's the only consideration, you should be able to use 4.1 and 4.2, both of which exist in lenny. That said, I would echo others' advice to port to the modern .h-less header

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 18:59:22 +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > MdI> just by looking at the name. > > If program A writes file FILENAME and user1 and user2 can make (write) > symlinks 'FILENAME' then name of program A is not important. > If that program is in a udeb, then user1 and user2 do

Re: Need g++-3.4 package in lenny

2008-08-11 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:37:53AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Lenny has gcc-3.4 in http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gcc-3.4 but lenny doesnt have g++-3.4. It's my understanding that this was intentional. There are already three different versions of gcc in lenny, which is a lot t

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
MdI> just by looking at the name. If program A writes file FILENAME and user1 and user2 can make (write) symlinks 'FILENAME' then name of program A is not important. user1 creates symlink FILENAME to ~user2/.gnupg/file, then user2 starts program A and destroy his .gnupg/file, etc this is secur

Re: feature: to add explanations of recommendations and suggestions dependencies

2008-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 06:36:35PM +0300, Shachar Or a écrit : >> >> What I am offering is the idea that package dependencies that are >> reccomendations or suggestions must be explained. > > Hi, > > Before I read your mail, I thought that it was not

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
On 14:05 Mon 11 Aug , Steve Kemp wrote: SK> Great work. If you have the time to see if any of these are included SK> in stable (etch) please could you do so? I checked only the packages of last version. I'll few new checks... SK> It might be that we'd need to release a security update, or a

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 11, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think there should be any objection to a mass-filing for > security sensitive bugs - and from the sounds of it you'll only be > filing a few bugs, not a mass of them. Except that one of the packages listed was obviously not vulnerable,

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
DEO> Package: mplayer nws ppp twiki DEO> Severity: grave DEO> Tags: security DEO> This message about the error concerns a few packages at once. I've DEO> tested all the packages on my Debian mirror. (post|pre)(inst|rm) and DEO> config scripts were tested. DEO> In some packages I've discover

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Kemp
Great work. If you have the time to see if any of these are included in stable (etch) please could you do so? It might be that we'd need to release a security update, or at least a package for the next point release. (I guess severity "grave" and a tag of "security" will ensure the same

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
On 10:57 Mon 11 Aug , Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: DEO> Package: mplayer nws ppp twiki DEO> Severity: grave DEO> Tags: security DEO> This message about the error concerns a few packages at once. I've DEO> tested all the packages on my Debian mirror. (post|pre)(inst|rm) and DEO> config scrip

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
On 10:57 Mon 11 Aug , Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: DEO> Package: mplayer nws ppp twiki DEO> Severity: grave DEO> Tags: security DEO> This message about the error concerns a few packages at once. I've DEO> tested all the packages on my Debian mirror. (post|pre)(inst|rm) and DEO> config scrip

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
On 10:27 Mon 11 Aug , Steve Kemp wrote: SK> On Mon Aug 11, 2008 at 10:57:56 +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: SK>> I set Severity into grave for this bug. The table of discovered SK>> problems is below. SK> Great work. SK> I don't think there should be any objection to a mass-filin

Re: Need g++-3.4 package in lenny

2008-08-11 Thread Bjoern Meier
Hi, I need older gcc and g++ as I have a lot of iostream.h in my code. iostream.h ? You mean iostream, or not? Greetings, Bjo"rn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Need g++-3.4 package in lenny

2008-08-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Lenny has gcc-3.4 in http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gcc-3.4 but lenny doesnt have g++-3.4. I need older gcc and g++ as I have a lot of iostream.h in my code. I can not use etch as NSS and NSPR it uses is very old dates back to 2005. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-11 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Hello, * 2008-08-11 09:53, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Is there any reason why phamm-ldap should depend on slapd? It could > recommend slapd, like e.g kolabd does. I think maybe the same goes for > gforge-ldap-openldap, which also seems to be a ldap client depending on > slapd. phamm is the real "appl

Some autobuilders wait for build-indep dependencies

2008-08-11 Thread Francisco Moya
Hi, I've uploaded a new version of zeroc-ice packages which essentially falls back to target build-arch whenever the autobuilder tries the build target on architectures other than i386. I hope the Build-Options control field or a similar approach will enter the Debian policy soon so that I can re

Re: feature: to add explanations of recommendations and suggestions dependencies

2008-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 06:36:35PM +0300, Shachar Or a écrit : > > What I am offering is the idea that package dependencies that are > reccomendations or suggestions must be explained. Hi, Before I read your mail, I thought that it was not possible, but after googling a bit, I found out that dp

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Aug 11, 2008 at 10:57:56 +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > I set Severity into grave for this bug. The tableof discovered > problems is below. Great work. I don't think there should be any objection to a mass-filing for security sensitive bugs - and from the sounds of

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-11 Thread Soren Hansen
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:48:29AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I really wish there was some organized way for packages to > automatically add schemas and settings to the OpenLDAP server > configuration, at install time. The new cn=config backend in recent OpenLDAP versions provide exactly

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bastian Blank] > ldap is a network based service. Why does the OP even consider that > the ldap server is running on the local machine? For Debian Edu, we configure the OpenLDAP on the main network server to work out of the box, and in this setup, we know that where the LDAP server is running.

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-11 Thread Bjørn Mork
Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:48:29AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> I really wish there was some organized way for packages to >> automatically add schemas and settings to the OpenLDAP server >> configuration, at install time. > > ldap is a network ba

Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
Package: mplayer nws ppp twiki Severity: grave Tags: security This message about the error concerns a few packages at once. I've tested all the packages on my Debian mirror. (post|pre)(inst|rm) and config scripts were tested. In some packages I've discovered scripts with errors which may be

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:48:29AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I really wish there was some organized way for packages to > automatically add schemas and settings to the OpenLDAP server > configuration, at install time. ldap is a network based service. Why does the OP even consider that th