question about Portaudit and code freezes

Joe Auty joe at netmusician.org
Thu Aug 25 17:29:14 GMT 2005


Is Xpdf still listed in the portsaudit database as being vulnerable  
for you?

portaudit -f /usr/ports/INDEX-5

If so, I guess there is nothing I can do except wait... I was just  
wondering if this has not been corrected because of the freeze?


On Aug 25, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Roland Smith wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:23:11AM -0500, Joe Auty wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> How come xpdf is still showing up as a vulnerability, even though the
>> latest portrevision was supposed to resolve these problems? Has the
>> portaudit database not been updated because of the code freeze?
>>
>
> Some other ports (like cups-base) incorporate part of the xpdf
> code. so they will still show up as vulnerable. But I think that the
> message shouldn't refer to xpdf. It's confusing.
>
> Roland
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