cvs commit: ports/security/portaudit-db/database portaudit.txt
portaudit.xlist portaudit.xml
Oliver Eikemeier
eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Tue Aug 17 13:59:30 PDT 2004
Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Tom Rhodes wrote:
>
>> BLAH! The date from uname compaired to date of advisory. Shit,
>> that only works for kernel. Hmmm
>
> Conditionalizing on kernel version would be fine for me, but isn't this
> the date when the kernel was compiled? The alternative seems to be to
> bump __FreeBSD_version for security fixes, but this won't work for
> patches. What is the problem with ident(1)? I seems like it was
> invented for stuff like this.
OTOH `ident /usr/bin/cvs' won't help with the recent vulnerability :(
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