cvs commit: ports/security/portaudit-db/database portaudit.txt portaudit.xlist portaudit.xml

[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:32:05 +0200
Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at 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