"firefox-3.0.5,1 has known vulnerabilities"

Guill. Moreno-Socias lists.gms at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 16:33:10 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Gary Palmer <gpalmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:34:08PM +0100, Guill. Moreno-Socias wrote:
>>    Hello.
>>    I am trying to install www/firefox3 using portupgrade.  The ports
>> tree is up to date.
>>    I get the following:
>>
>> --->  Fresh installation of www/firefox3 started at: Tue, 06 Jan 2009
>> 23:22:39 +0100
>> --->  Installing 'firefox-3.0.5,1' from a port (www/firefox3)
>> --->  Build of www/firefox3 started at: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:22:41 +0100
>> --->  Building '/usr/ports/www/firefox3'
>> ===>  Cleaning for firefox-3.0.5,1
>> ===>  WARNING: Vulnerability database out of date, checking anyway
>
> First thing is to make sure that you update the audit database.
>
> portaudit -F
>
> will fetch an up-to-date copy for you I believe.  I have firefox-3.0.5,1
> installed and portaudit is not complaining about it, so I suspect the
> issue is restricted to the version of the database you have.

   You are right.  I did not even have portaudit installed (I had
never heard of it till now).
   I have installed it and updated the audit database and now Firefox
3 is compiling.
   Thank you very much.

-- 
Guillermo Moreno-Socías


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