Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:01:15 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/portaudit-db/database portaudit.txt portaudit.xlist portaudit.xml Message-ID: <93C7E544-F090-11D8-A951-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <2EA0165A-F090-11D8-A951-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
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Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > Tom Rhodes wrote: > >> BLAH! The date from uname compaired to date of advisory. Shit, >> that only works for kernel. Hmmm > > Conditionalizing on kernel version would be fine for me, but isn't this > the date when the kernel was compiled? The alternative seems to be to > bump __FreeBSD_version for security fixes, but this won't work for > patches. What is the problem with ident(1)? I seems like it was > invented for stuff like this. OTOH `ident /usr/bin/cvs' won't help with the recent vulnerability :(
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