Remotely exploitable bug in systemd (CVE-2017-9445)

2017-07-01 Thread Perry E. Metzger
a fix to it still isn't in sid, and therefore is not yet in the process of percolating down to stretch? Is there a preferred way of temporarily mitigating the problem? Remote exploitation that you can trigger by forcing a program to DNS queries seems kind of bad. Perry -- Perry E. Me

Re: openvpn updates?

2017-06-27 Thread Perry E. Metzger
vpn > > and > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openvpn > > let you down? In the respect that I didn't know they existed and I could look at them? Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: openvpn updates?

2017-06-27 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:10:21 +0300 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:20:09AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > There was a security advisory against openvpn a couple of days > > ago; > > Yesterday, not a couple of days ago. > > > just wondering wh

openvpn updates?

2017-06-22 Thread Perry E. Metzger
There was a security advisory against openvpn a couple of days ago; just wondering when updated packages are likely to show up? -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: postfix mail filtering

2016-08-31 Thread Perry E. Metzger
problem. What you're looking for is an implementation of the Sieve language/system for mail filtering. You don't say what IMAP server you are using, but Dovecot has an implementation of this called "Pigeonhole" that is very likely what you want. Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

2016-08-29 Thread Perry E. Metzger
workarounds. Users rely on the security update mechanism to get their security updates. Most organizations aren't even equipped to follow the torrent of security alerts happening at any given time on an independent basis. Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

2016-08-29 Thread Perry E. Metzger
ernel/linux.git/commit/?h=wheezy-security&id=f383788fb866fc61daf26836bccd92ebf7a6f02f Very cool. Any idea when the actual release by the security people might be? Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

2016-08-29 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:55:03 +0100 Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2016-08-28 at 15:36 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:35:01 +0200 Frederic Marchal > [...] > > > > > > Even if the requirements are met, the attack fails if the > > > cli

Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

2016-08-28 Thread Perry E. Metzger
le? And again, leaving such holes unpatched puts people at risk -- and at an utterly unnecessary risk. You claim this isn't easily feasible, but it has been demoed. It is known possible. The hole needs to be fixed. Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

2016-08-26 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:06:15 +0200 Frederic Marchal wrote: > On Friday 26 August 2016 11:04:04 Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > According to: > > > > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5696 > > > > Wheezy and Jessie are still vulnerable. The atta

Re: Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

2016-08-26 Thread Perry E. Metzger
r example: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/294 ) However, no fixed kernels have been released by Debian yet... Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Any idea when CVE-2016-5696 is going to get fixed?

2016-08-26 Thread Perry E. Metzger
idea out there when updates to the kernels in question will be released? Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

2010-08-26 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:52:31 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:43 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > I presume you mean the cipher by Anderson, Biham and Knudsen. > Yep was there another one of the same name? > > > > I'm unawar

Re: SERPENT implementation in debian

2010-08-26 Thread Perry E. Metzger
ary. I presume you mean the cipher by Anderson, Biham and Knudsen. I'm unaware of one, but I think it is a fairly bad move to use algorithms other than standard ones. Unless you have very good reason to use something eperimental, I would stick to AES. -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@p

Re: Verbatim 1TB external HDD

2010-08-23 Thread Perry E. Metzger
ting backup programs to send incrementals onto the partition daily. Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Re: Verbatim 1TB external HDD

2010-08-23 Thread Perry E. Metzger
t as he goes along, with me syncing the whole thing > periodically. Since I will not be there most of the time, this > strikes me as simple and workable. But anacron may also be a > possibility. If the goal is to use this thing for backup, use a backup utility rather than just cop

Re: Broken/Obsolete packages - I think we can do better.

2010-08-18 Thread Perry E. Metzger
one. At the very least, file a bug report. -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100818151047.72863...@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com

Mandatory Access Control Systems?

2010-08-18 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Are any MAC systems integrated into Debian other than SELinux? (Also, does this differ between Lenny and Squeeze?) -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Embedded System Recommendations

2010-07-29 Thread Perry E. Metzger
> > Does anyone use Debian on a box like this (headless) that they can > recommend? If you're willing to leave the world of x86, there are lots of cool things out there like the Beagleboard, Shivaplug/Guruplug, etc. -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com -- To

Re: Linux filesystems was [Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.]

2010-07-29 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:34:06 +0200 Aniruddha wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Perry E. Metzger > wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:46:29 +0200 Aniruddha > > wrote: > >> I have done some testing with Debian stable in Virtualbox and I > >> have to say

Re: Linux filesystems was [Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.]

2010-07-28 Thread Perry E. Metzger
ted were meaningful, the jobs of systems programmers would be much simpler. We could just try something a couple of times by hand and we would know if our code was flawless. Sadly, the world does not work that way. -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com -- To UNSUBS

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread Perry E. Metzger
f the file system. You can probably just do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/scd bs=1M or some moral equivalent. -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: High udp port are open temporarily

2010-07-15 Thread Perry E. Metzger
also be opening UDP ports here and there -- just lsof repeatedly to catch them. -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de