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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:22:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: automated checking of Security Advisories
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010424151816.20031B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010424121130.C89819@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> 
> pkg_version may be a logical place to stick this functionality since
> it already has code for parsing version numbers.

Ya... I think it would be wise to somehow include validating of the
security advisories too when doing these checks.  Im not sure how this
tool will know which packages are vulnerable (Im assuming a config file of
sorts), but it would be a smart thing to include some pgp key validation
of each of the advisory vulns the tool is looking for.

Just a small thing... :-)
> 
> Kris
> 

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