Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:35:10 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> 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: <20040817153510.6ccfbd8b@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1F055B5E-F084-11D8-924A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> References: <20040817185332.2B91D1800A@sirius.firepipe.net> <1F055B5E-F084-11D8-924A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:32:05 +0200 Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> wrote: > 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. Yea, I already mentioned this. We could also stat the UPDATING file for the entry? Perhaps some kind of string could be checked with grep or something. -- Tom Rhodes
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