similar to: php3 module and security

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

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, There have been a bunch of useful submissions for the compare /contrast thread. To reduce the load on your mailbox, they are gathered here in one go... Roger. Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:11:37 +0000 From: "David L. Sifry" <dsifry@linuxcare.com> To: "Matthew S. Crocker" <matthew@crocker.com> CC: Rob Bringman <rob@trion.com>,

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

Hi, well, swift response! Qualcomm has a patched qpopper (2.5) Greetings, Jan-Philip Velders <jpv@jvelders.tn.tudelft.nl> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:43:18 -0700 From: Praveen Yaramada <pyaramad@QUALCOMM.COM> To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG Subject: Patched Qpopper2.5 release Notification. Hello Folks, As you are already aware that qpopper

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

---------- 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:

-----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

-----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

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: 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

Hi, I''ve been thinking about group membership and the corresponding (weak) restrictions to system resources. Consider the following: % cat > gsh.c main() { system("/bin/sh"); } % cc -o gsh gsh.c % id uid=100(joe) gid=500(users) groups=14(floppy),15(sound) % chgrp sound gsh % chmod g+s gsh % mail abuser Subject: You owe me $5...

In Debian 1.1, the optional DOSEMU package installs /usr/sbin/dos setuid root. This is a serious security hole which can be exploited to gain access to any file on the system. Package: dosemu Version: 0.64.0.2-9 ------- start of cut text -------------- $ cat /etc/debian_version 1.1 $ id uid=xxxx(quinlan) gid=xxxx(quinlan) groups=xxxx(quinlan),20(dialout),24(cdrom) [quinlan:~]$ ls -al

>Their is a buffer overrun in /bin/login which has the potential to >allow any user of your system to gain root access. util-linux-2.5-29 >contains a fix for this and is available for Red Hat Linux 4.0 on >all four platforms. We strongly recommend that all of Red Hat 4.0 >usres apply this fix. Does this bug affect the ''login'' that is distributed with shadow

Alexander O. Yuriev wrote: > > Your message dated: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 18:04:39 EST > > >has anyone played with the securelevel variable in the kernel and the > > >immutable flags in the ext2 file system? > > > > Yes, and its actualy quite nice. > > > > >The sysctrl code seems to allow the setting of the flag > > >only by init (PID=1)

Automatic renewal The Ubuntu package for certbot comes pre-configured with systemd timer that will automatically renew existing certificates. What it does not handle however is reloading postfix/dovecot so that they will begin using the new certificates. For that, we need to implement a hook. Certbot has both pre and post hooks that you can use to execute a script prior to and after the renewal

Oops. Missed one line in the last patch.... Roger. -- ** R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* * The Worlds Ecosystem is a stable system. Stable systems may experience * * excursions from the stable situation. We are currently in such an * * excursion: The stable situation does

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

----- Forwarded message from [Harald Kie_ling] ----- [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Scanner for mail There are two possible mechanisms to protect email-users over a mail server from a virus : _ Hook into mail server and scanning the email Nearly 90% gave me the advise to take AMAVIS and scan the mail with some scanner. _ Hook into the smpt-protocol like a fire-wall Two