Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:55:22 +0200
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>, ale@Freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New pkg audit FNs
Message-ID:  <o9pg-ouk5-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <d56ddf99-a1fc-e813-67ed-ea6d65c8211f@FreeBSD.org> (Steve Wills's message of "Mon, 9 Oct 2017 17:09:28 -0400")
References:  <nycvar.OFS.7.76.1710090833020.60492@eboyr.pbz> <b63f2936-e922-4a90-f256-6d7870dbd55b@FreeBSD.org> <tvz8-rrf3-wny@FreeBSD.org> <d56ddf99-a1fc-e813-67ed-ea6d65c8211f@FreeBSD.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On 10/09/2017 16:34, Jan Beich wrote:
>> Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>
>>> On 09/10/2017 16:57, Roger Marquis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can anyone say what mechanisms the ports-security team might have in
>>>> place to monitor CVEs and port software versions? 
>
> I've been hacking at a prototype for scanning what I can find:
>
> https://github.com/swills/nvd_to_new_vuxml

Wouldn't that encourage copypasta, exacerbating filesize issue? Why not
teach pkg-audit(8) to query NVD based on CPE annotations in *binary* packages?
Doing so would also provide a workaround for VuXML entries cancelled
to reduce bloat.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?o9pg-ouk5-wny>