Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:38:01PM +0000, Chris Hodgins wrote:
Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:11:04PM +0200, Cristi Tauber wrote:
===> pdflib-6.0.1 is forbidden:
http://vuxml.freebsd.org/fc7e6a42-6012-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html.
Forbidden ? Why ? anyone ...
Yes this one: just follow the link. (pretty obvious ;))
If you insist in installing the port, 'un' break it manually.
HTH
Purely out of curiosity.. when a possible exploit such as this is
discovered in a port and a patch is provided, why is it not patched
immediately? I understand that when a vulnerability is discovered it is
important to look for similar bugs in the file and also the entire port.
Is this what takes the time or is it purely a maintainer finding the
time to update it?
Again this is just out of curiosity and not related to this port in
particular.
Yes -- it's just waiting for the maintainer to provide an update.
Most maintainers in this situation will send-pr(1) a fix within a day
or so. The security team will generally prod (via e-mail) any port
maintainer when they add a VuXML entry concerning their port -- unless
it was the port maintainer that told them about the problem in the
first place, which does happen occasionally.
PRs applying updates to ports and marked 'Security' and/or CC'd to the
security team tend to get committed PDQ, even during the middle of a
ports freeze.
Depending on the responsiveness of the maintainer and/or the severity
of the vulnerability and/or availability of patches a port may either
be marked 'FORBIDDEN' or pre-emptively patched without the
maintainer's involvement, but those are both quite rare events.
You can always override the vulnerability checking by setting
'DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes' in the environment. Often this makes
sense to do, but only once you've read through the background material
from the VuXML document -- eg. the vulnerability may permit privilege
escalation for local users, which would be bad ju-ju if you were
running a public access shell server, but no biggie if it was on your
personal desktop box that only you would ever use.
Cheers,
Matthew
Thanks. That was very informative. :)
Chris
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