From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 16:37:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB8D37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:37:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7F543F43 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:37:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <200301290037560010087ct2e>; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 00:37:56 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0T0butm086115 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:37:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0T0bt8B086112; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:37:55 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Checking Vulnerabilities References: <3.0.5.32.20030127171422.02b412a0@mail.sage-one.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 28 Jan 2003 19:37:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20030127171422.02b412a0@mail.sage-one.net> Message-ID: <44vg08oknw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jack L. Stone" writes: > At 05:56 PM 1.27.2003 -0500, Mario Antonio wrote: > >Dear List, > > > >How Can I verify that my system has some of the discovered vulnerabilities? > >Is there any tool that I can use to help me out? > > > > > >Regards > > > >Mario > > > > The tool I use is regular cvsup for -RELEASE, which includes all security > updates.... That only includes security updates that are considered "critical". And strictly speaking, it doesn't answer the question, because this is talking about a way of *fixing* the problems, not identifying them. Usually, the security notifications include the information needed to determine whether a problem affects your system or not. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message