similar to: [labs@idefense.com: iDEFENSE Security Advisory 04.08.03: Denial of Service in Apache HTTP Server 2.x]

Bill Moran wrote: > This report seems pretty vague. I'm unsure as to whether the alleged > "bug" gives the user any more permissions than he'd already have? Anyone > know any details? This is a local denial of service bug, which was fixed 6 weeks ago in HEAD and RELENG_6. There is no opportunity for either remote denial of service or any privilege escalation. >

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Subject: Potential Remote Denial of Service CVE #: CAN-2004-0930 Affected Versions: Samba 3.0.x <= 3.0.7 Summary: A remote attacker could cause and smbd process to consume abnormal amounts of system resources due to an input validation error when matching filenames containing wildcard characters. Patch Availability - ------------------ A

Hi, I wanted to get some opinions on this subject before I submit a PR about it. I don't know if there are any pitfalls with the 'fix' I suggested and though it best to run it past people here before submitting. If there's a better place to post this please let me know (freebsd-ports?). The send-pr output I was about to send explains everything so I'll just paste it here:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: many out-of-sequence TCP packets denial-of-service Category: core Module: kernel

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: many out-of-sequence TCP packets denial-of-service Category: core Module: kernel

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-04:14.cvs.asc Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: CVS Category: contrib Module: cvs Announced: 2004-09-19 Credits: Stefan

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-04:14.cvs.asc Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: CVS Category: contrib Module: cvs Announced: 2004-09-19 Credits: Stefan

BM_207650 MEDIUM Vulnerability Version: 1 2/18/2004@03:47:29 GMT Initial report <https://ialert.idefense.com/KODetails.jhtml?irId=207650> ID#207650: FreeBSD Memory Buffer Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability (iDEFENSE Exclusive): Remote exploitation of a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in FreeBSD's memory buffers (mbufs) could allow attackers to launch a DoS attack.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: telnet client buffer overflows Category: contrib Module: contrib/telnet Announced:

Hello, What do you recommend for keeping track of user activities? For preserving bash histories I followed these recommendations: http://www.defcon1.org/secure-command.html They include using 'chflags sappnd .bash_history', enabling process accounting, and the like. My goal is to "watch the watchers," i.e. watch for abuse of power by SOC people with the ability to view

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Subject: Samba 3.0.x Denial of Service Flaw Summary: (i) A DoS bug in smbd may allow an unauthenticated user to cause smbd to spawn new processes each one entering an infinite loop. After sending a sufficient amount of packets it is possible to exhaust the memory resources on the server. (ii) A DoS bug in nmbd may allow an attacker to

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Subject: Samba 3.0.x Denial of Service Flaw Summary: (i) A DoS bug in smbd may allow an unauthenticated user to cause smbd to spawn new processes each one entering an infinite loop. After sending a sufficient amount of packets it is possible to exhaust the memory resources on the server. (ii) A DoS bug in nmbd may allow an attacker to

Hi all I am trying to get rid of strings: kernel: Connection attempt to UDP FREEBSD_IP:port from DNSSERVER_IP:53 on my console and in log file I understand that those are replies on DNS queries that for some reason took too long time to be answered. I do not want to turn off the "log in vain" feature. As these strings fill up my log I am afraid to miss some sensitive messages (e.g.

Hi, I would like to log all keyboard activities in all ttys in my FreeBSD 5.2 box. Is there anyway to do it? I read the watch man page and it seems like I should run watch with tty as many times as number of ttys. Am I right? Also is it possible to do the log in invisible way? The main reason is to log all commands typed in shell and tty and send the log to the remote server. How can I

The following advisory was issued by CERT yesterday. Because it affects FreeBSD systems as well, we are forwarding it to the appropriate FreeBSD mailing lists. We would like to thanks CERT for cooperation with the FreeBSD security officer on this subject. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- CERT Advisory CA-98-13-tcp-denial-of-service Original Issue Date: December 21, 1998 Last Revised

Please see http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=496 for information about a vulnerability in versions of ImageMagick prior to 6.3.3-5. If you''re using a version of ImageMagick that is administered by your web host please let them know about this advisory. -- RMagick [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org] RMagick Installation FAQ

Recent proftpd security vulnerability release FYI. Ports has latest patched proftpd distribution. -- Jez http://www.munk.nu/ -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Dave Ahmad <da@securityfocus.com> Subject: ISS Security Brief: ProFTPD ASCII File Remote Compromise Vulnerability (fwd) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:25:54 -0600 (MDT) Size: 4588 Url:

In http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200402260743.IAA18903 it seems RELENG_4 is vulnerable. Is there any work around to a system that has to have ports open ? Version: 1 2/18/2004@03:47:29 GMT >Initial report > <<https://ialert.idefense.com/KODetails.jhtml?irId=207650>https://ialert.idefense.com/KODetails.jhtml?irId=207650; >ID#207650: >FreeBSD Memory Buffer

yes unless you use the version as of :> 2004-03-02 17:24:46 UTC (RELENG_5_2, 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1) check it out with uname -a if it does not say -p1 it affects you. My guess, you are affected :) cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 X.Org security advisory, June 11th, 2008 Multiple vulnerabilities in X server extensions CVE IDs: CVE-2008-1377, CVE-2008-1379, CVE-2008-2360, CVE-2008-2361, ~ CVE-2008-2362 Overview Several vulnerabilities have been found in the server-side code of some extensions in the X Window System. Improper validation of client-provided data can