similar to: [RHSA-1999:054-01] Security problems in bind (fwd)

We just had a security application vendor come in. We asked about Linux support and he said that putting a security application on top of an insecure OS was useless. When I asked what he meant by insecure he replied that Linux does not have a true Auditing capability - as opposed to HP-UX & Solaris which they do support. Can anyone explain to me what he was talking about? Thanks, Marty

After the recent attacks on the major servers on the web my ISP has decided to stop all ICMP messages from his ISP. I have red the RFCs and it seems that he cant do that... As a result pings and traceroutes will not work. I need a friendly person out there to tell me a way to break the news to him that he has to allow ICMP packets through his network... any suggestions would be helpfull [mod:

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: New majordomo packages available Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:005-05 Issue date: 2000-01-20 Updated on: 2000-05-31 Product: Red Hat Powertools Keywords: majordomo Cross references: N/A

Hi, I was wondering how a linux box configured as a firewall stacked up against some of the commercial products like checkpoint-1 and gauntlet. Can someone direct me to a good book or online doc that compares linux to some other firewall methods? Mind you, I''m not talking about a firewall in the classical sense, ie ip forwarding turned off and used as a proxy, but the typical Linux box

I would be surprised if someone hasn''t encountered this already, but I haven''t found any discussion of the nature of this problem. I run RehHat 5.0. If a user makes a mistake in the login process such as the following: login: mistake password: xxx Login incorrect! login: username password xxxx bash$ a ps will show, among other things, 2333 /bin/login --mistake. Since

George Brown sent this to my private Email address instead of to the list. Because I forwarded it, my addres is in the header. Roger. ----- Forwarded message from root ----- >From root@bull.bullnet.co.uk Mon Aug 24 16:20:29 1998 Received: from dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl by rosie.BitWizard.nl (fetchmail-4.2.9 POP3 run by wolff) for <wolff@localhost> (single-drop); Mon Aug 24

At 01:59 PM 6/29/98 +0000, Kokoro Security Administrator wrote: >Hello everyone - > >I am looking for the name of a piece of hardware, and don''t know what it >is called. I am told that there exists such a thing (a switch? a router? >a special hub?) that will only send me traffic that is destined for me. simple definitions: --router: looks at a layer 3 address (such as

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: Buffer overflow problem in the inews program Advisory ID: RHSA-1999:033-01 Issue date: 1999-09-01 Keywords: inn inews buffer overflow - --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Topic: New packages for INN

Well, last night, my box was hit again.. same symptoms: All attempts to connect remotely receive a connection, but a login prompt never comes up. When I went to the console and turned on the monitor, I had the login prompt, but written on to the screen was the message IPMASQ: Reverse ICMP: Checksum error from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx So, on this occasion, I thought I would post a summary of the

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: Security problems in bind Advisory ID: RHSA-1999:054-01 Issue date: 1999-11-11 Updated on: 1999-11-11 Keywords: bind named NXT solinger fdmax Cross references: http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security-19991108.html

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:14:09 -0800 (PST) From: David Cantrell <david@slackware.com> To: slackware-security@slackware.com Subject: Security Patches for Slackware 7.0 Available There are several security updates available for Slackware 7.0. We will always post bug fixes and security fixes to the /patches subdirectory on the ftp site:

This may be, or may not be a security issue, however, since alot of people still use tripwire-1.2 or lesser versions(this is what shipped with R.H. Linux 5.2 at least), they might be interested in following detail: Chuck Campbell (campbell@neosoft.com) pointed me out that tripwire dies with coredump on R.H. linux, if it hits a filename containing 128-255 characters. Playing a bit with debugger I

below. Dan ___________________________________________________________________________ Dan Yocum | Phone: (630) 840-8525 Linux/Unix System Administrator | Fax: (630) 840-6345 Computing Division OSS/FSS | email: yocum@fnal.gov .~. L Fermi National Accelerator Lab | WWW: www-oss.fnal.gov/~yocum/ /V\ I P.O. Box 500 |

Hi, When php3 module is compiled in apache, files in any directory will be interpreted by the parser and executed. This is a security breach. There is a way to correct this? Any comments? Thanks, lacj --- <levy@null.net> Levy Carneiro Jr. Linux & Network Admin From mail@mail.redhat.com Sat May 8 02:32:02 1999 Received: (qmail 28372 invoked from network); 8 May 1999 07:05:57

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: Zope update Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:052-04 Issue date: 2000-08-11 Updated on: 2000-08-18 Product: Red Hat Powertools Keywords: Zope Cross references: N/A

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: mirror-2.8.f4 Date: Fri Oct 01 22:21:15 MEST 1999 Affected: all Linux distributions using mirror <= 2.8.f4 _____________________________________________________________________________ A

Ran into a weird problem, and this seemed a good forum to toss it out into -- if I've gaffed, please let me know. Just upgraded my RH5.0 box to RH5.2. Went well, worked nearly seamlessly. When running 5.0, though, I'd installed the opie-fied ftpd that comes with the most recent opie package (ftp://ftp.inner.net/pub/opie/opie-2.32.tar.gz) and had it work without a hitch. I'd also

Hi Are there any known security holes or necessary precautions in using port forwarding with ipportfw? I'm planning on forwarding ports from an outer firewall/router (connected to the Internet) to a host in the DMZ, then on from the DMZ host to the inner firewall, and finally from the inner firewall to some host on the inside. Thanks, Jens jph@strengur.is From mail@mail.redhat.com Wed

> From my understanding you seem to have Mac and Windows clients and are > using the Samba machine as a fileserver. If the windows machines are > joined to a domain, then you will probably be better off joining the > Samba machine to the domain, this way you will not need the user map. > > It might help if you could explain your setup, if it is different > from the above and

Hello, Really stumped on this issue. I have samba 4.4.7 running on a new server. Users cannot write to files to which they have write permissions via group. Example: Here's the local filesystem on the samba server. I'm logged in as jmalone : jmalone at canis; cd /home/www.nrao.edu/content/logs/ : jmalone at canis; ls -l total 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jmalone nraoweb 0 Nov 10 10:02