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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:32:05 +0200
From:      Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
To:        Pete Fritchman <petef@absolutbsd.org>
Cc:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/portaudit-db/database portaudit.txt portaudit.xlist portaudit.xml 
Message-ID:  <1F055B5E-F084-11D8-924A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040817185332.2B91D1800A@sirius.firepipe.net>

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Pete Fritchman wrote:

> Perhaps you could use CVS revision IDs (with 'ident').  For example,
>
> /usr/bin/passwd:
>      $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.c,v 1.16.2.1 2001/03/12 
> 10:48:08 assar Exp $
>      $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pw_scan.c,v 1.14.2.2 2004/02/22 
> 11:28:06 charnier Exp $
>      $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/vipw/pw_util.c,v 1.17.2.4 2002/09/04 
> 15:28:10 des Exp $
>      $FreeBSD: src/libexec/ypxfr/ypxfr_misc.c,v 1.9.2.2 2002/02/15 
> 00:46:54 des Exp $
>      $FreeBSD: src/include/rpcsvc/yp.x,v 1.12 1999/08/27 23:45:12 peter 
> Exp $
>      $FreeBSD: src/include/rpcsvc/yppasswd.x,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:45:12 
> peter Exp $
>      $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/rpc.yppasswdd/yppasswd_private.x,v 1.6 
> 1999/08/28 01:19:41 peter Exp $
>      $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/rpc.yppasswdd/yppasswd_private.x,v 1.6 
> 1999/08/28 01:19:41 peter Exp $
>
> If a security bug was fixed in passwd.c 1.16.3.1, you could point out 
> that
> I'm vulnerable.  Most of the security advisories include the revision 
> that
> things were fixed in, so this shouldn't be too hard.

Jacques doens't seem to like this: "Aaaaaahh!". I don't really care 
ident(1) is fine for me, and it seems like this is the only reliable 
indication. OTOH you'll need a couple of references (file, list of 
FreeBSD versions). Doable, so when no other ideas pop up we should do 
this.
-Oliver



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