cups builds on one, but rejected by another?

Kurt Buff kurt.buff at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 14:32:15 PST 2007


On 11/14/07, Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 November 2007 03:57:26 pm Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Jonathan Horne wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 03:39:47 pm Jonathan Horne wrote:
> > >> my jails server (6.2-p8) just ran portupgrade fine, and cups was one of
> > >> its items it updated:
> > >>
> > >> [root at canopus ~]# pkg_info | grep cups-
> > >> cups-base-1.3.3_2   Common UNIX Printing System
> > >>
> > >> but my 7.0-b2 desktop, refuses to build the same package:
> > >>
> > >> ===>  cups-base-1.3.3_2 has known vulnerabilities:
> > >> => cups -- off-by-one buffer overflow.
> > >>    Reference:
> > >> <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/8dd9722c-8e97-11dc-b8f6-001c2514
> > >>716 c.html> => Please update your ports tree and try again.
> > >> *** Error code 1
> > >>
> > >> what would be the differences between the 2 systems that one would build
> > >> it, and the other reject the same port?  ive not tweaked any port
> > >> security settings on either one, so this is some curious behavior to me.
> > >>
> > >> thanks,
> > >
> > > another interesting thing, when you read the portaudit page for this, it
> > > says:
> > >
> > > Affects:
> > > cups-base <1.3.3_1
> > >
> > > but yet 1.3.3_2 still is rejected.
> >
> > One or the other has either a stale portaudit database or ports tree.
> >
> > Kris
>
> what is the method for updating the portaudit database?  both have had their
> ports trees updated today, the 7.0 box multiple times.
>
> thanks,
> --
> Jonathan Horne
> http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org
> freebsd at dfwlp.com

I ran into a similar issue with cups - what does 'portaudit -aF' give
on each machine?


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