Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 23:22:10 +0100
From: Marc Heuse marc@SUSE.DE
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
SuSE Security Announcement
Announcement of new security tools from SuSE
Please note, that that we provide this information on an “as-is”
basis only. There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for
any direct, indirect or incidental damage arising from this
information or the installation of the update package.
Tools developed by SuSE (all open source) and included in SuSE
6.3 :
SuSE FTP Proxy – The first program of the SuSE Proxy Suite. A
secure FTP proxy with support for SSL, LDAP, command restriction,
active and passive FTP support, and much more.
RPM: fwproxy.rpm, fwproxys.rpm (SSL – not in the US version)
SuSE Firewall – The new firewall script from SuSE, rewritten
from scratch. Autodetection of interface information, masquerading,
autoprotection of services, protection from internal networks,
fail-close design and easy to configure. RPM: firewals.rpm
Harden SuSE – A special script for hardening a SuSE Linux 5.3 –
6.3. By answering 9 questions, the system is reconfigured very
tightly. e.g. disabling insecure network services, removing
suid/sgid/world-writable permissions which are not critical. RPM:
hardsuse.rpm
SuSE Secumod – This loadable kernel module enhances the security
of the system by adding a symlink/hardlink/pipe protection, procfs
protection, trusted path execution and capabilities. RPM:
secumod.rpm
SuSE Secchk – These are cron scripts which run daily, weekly and
monthly to check the security of the system and compare them to the
last run. RPM: seccheck.rpm
Yast-1 – New administration menu for setting password aging,
authentication fail delay and logging of logins + failures. RPM:
yast.rpm
SuSE auditdisk – Please note that this tool is in beta phase!
This tool generates a bootdisk with checksum data and all binaries
etc. needed to automaticaly verify file checksums upon booting.
This way it can’t be subverted by lkm’s like a standard e.g.
tripwire installation.
WWW: http://www.suse.de/~marc – not
included on SuSE 6.3 yet
Watch out for updates of these tools on our WWW or FTP update
sites. Although these are tools developed by SuSE, they (should)
work on any Linux distributions with little problems.
New tools included in the SuSE Linux distribution (not created
by SuSE):
FreeS/WAN – IPSEC implementation to build secure VPN tunnels via
public networks.
RPM: freeswan.rpm (not in the US version)
GNU Privacy Guard – A free pgp-like tool for secure (not limited
to email) communication. Frontends are also included.
RPM: gpg (not in the US version)
Nessus – A very good network security scanner!
RPM: nessus
plus tmpwatch, arpwatch, plug, sslwrap, the newest nmap and
more. “Old” packages include: john, saint, cipe, pgp, scanlogd,
ssh, tripwire, etc.
General information on SuSE Linux:
http://www.suse.com
You can find updates on our ftp-Server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update
for Intel processors
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update
for Alpha processors
or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html
Our webpage for patches:
http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/updates/
Our webpage for security announcements:
http://www.suse.de/security
If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security@suse.de
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