cvs commit: ports/security/vuxml vuln.xml

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 5 12:10:07 UTC 2011


I wasn't suggesting that Chris commit anything, I know he has better
self-control than that. :)

Meanwhile, one more feature request ... update BASEURL in packaudit to
http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/


Doug


On 09/05/2011 00:46, Remko Lodder wrote:
> 
> Dear Doug,
> 
> While having a look is not a problem, it is bad advice that someone
> goes for it because I am not responsive enough. I advised Chris to
> have a look at possible solutions but consult us before commits are
> being made.
> 
> Thanks Remko
> 
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 2:01 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>> On 09/04/2011 13:44, 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?
>> 
>> Please just go for it. secteam@ hasn't been very responsive of
>> late.
>> 
>> Will this fix the problem of new auditfile generation? The current
>> one is from the 1st and there have been several changes since
>> then.
>> 
>> While you're at it, a feature request (although this is probably in
>> a different part of the code). It would be nice if the individual
>> HTML pages, such as 
>> http://portaudit.freebsd.org/b7b03bab-c296-11d8-bfb2-000bdb1444a4.html
>>
>> had a link back to the main page, http://portaudit.freebsd.org/.
>> 
>> 
>> Doug


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