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Date:      Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:34:43 -0500
From:      CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap
Message-ID:  <50396113.3080607@cyberleo.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120825000148.GF37867@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> <20120824081543.GB2998@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <50380269.6020003@FreeBSD.org> <20120825000148.GF37867@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>

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On 08/24/2012 07:01 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Can anyone give me he details on the security related problem?

Off the top of my head, it seems to represent a break in the chain of
trust: how does the bootstrapper verify that the tarball it just
downloaded to bootstrap pkg is genuine, and not, for example, a
trojan? The source in usr.sbin/pkg/pkg.c[1] doesn't seem to suggest it
cares.

[1]
http://git.cyberleo.net/?p=FreeBSD/releng/9.1.git;a=blob;f=usr.sbin/pkg/pkg.c;hb=b96b623d8debed8fa8fd7df5af01a350344549c9

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