On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:53:41AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>Package: cvs
>Version: 1:1.12.9-14
>Severity: minor
>
>I note that Fedora Core recently did an advisory against CVS regarding
>the cvsbug program.
>
>We don't ship the cvsbug program in our cvs package, so we're immune, but
>we do ship the manpage, which in my haste I nearly mistook for the command,
>causing me to almost file a spurious security bug.  :)
>
>IMO, it's pointless to ship the manpage when the thing it documents is not
>present.

True, yes... :-)

I removed the cvsbug program a while ago, as it seems to be _designed_
for insecurity. Looks like I just missed the man page... 

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there
  must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the
  far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled
  knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature

Reply via email to