pkg audit / vuln.xml failures

Mark Felder feld at FreeBSD.org
Mon May 18 18:06:55 UTC 2015



On Sun, May 17, 2015, at 16:02, Roger Marquis wrote:
> Does anyone know what's going on with vuln.xml updates?  Over the last
> few weeks and months CVEs and application mailing lists have announced
> vulnerabilities for several ports that in some cases only showed up in
> vuln.xml after several days and in other cases are still not listed
> (despite email to the security team).
> 
> Is there a URL outlining the policies and procedures of vuln.xml
> maintenance?
> 

I am also interested. I know there is a desire to leverage CPE in the
future, but I've seen CPE entries take weeks to show up. Our vuln.xml
maintenance has always been pretty solid. Is there a lack of manpower
right now? Are there notices/reports not being processed?

How can we help?


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