cvs commit: ports/security/vuxml vuln.xml

Simon L. B. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 5 10:35:45 UTC 2011


On 4 Sep 2011, at 22:44, Chris Rees wrote:

> On 4 September 2011 21:15, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> crees       2011-09-04 20:15:52 UTC
>> 
>>  FreeBSD ports repository
>> 
>>  Modified files:
>>    security/vuxml       vuln.xml
>>  Log:
>>  - Document cfs buffer overflow vulnerability.
>>  - While here, unbreak packaudit -- it doesn't like newlines in the
>>    middle of tags.  Perhaps a comment should say something?
> 
> Actually, that's a bad long-term solution. The real solution would be
> to fix portaudit's XML parser.
> 
> secteam, would you like me to have a go at it, or shall I let you
> investigate since you know the code?

I would happily accept patches (if they work and don't break things! :-) ). It's so long ago that I looked at the build code (packaudit) so I can't recall how ugly that is.  I just remember portaudit's embedded awk in sh makes me want to run away :-).

Portaudit and packaudit haven't really been touched in any significant way since eik@ left the project.

- 
Simon L. B. Nielsen
Hat: FreeBSD Deputy Security Officer



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