Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:22:49 -0000 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Gunther Mayer" <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When can we have a secure libxml2? Message-ID: <op.ujbzsbgq9aq2h7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <48FC693E.6030409@gmail.com> References: <48FC693E.6030409@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:19:26 -0000, Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask but we're using libxml2 and the > version in ports (2.6.x) currently suffers from a rather serious > security vulnerability: > > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/portaudit/d71da236-9a94-11dd-8f42-001c2514716c.html > > Yet there's no libxml2-2.7.x in ports as required by the above notice. > So there's no solution other than compiling an up-to-date one by hand > and that opens up a whole different can of worms regarding dependencies. > > When will this be addressed? Done. > Regards, > > Gunther -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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