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Date:      Mon, 3 May 2004 20:47:13 +0200
From:      Frankye - ML <listsucker@ipv5.net>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bad VuXML check on PNG port ?
Message-ID:  <20040503204713.3abb28e0@godzilla>
In-Reply-To: <40968883.3070103@pydo.org>
References:  <40965500.4040205@pydo.org> <20040503144335.GA15293@madman.celabo.org> <40968883.3070103@pydo.org>

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On Mon, 03 May 2004 19:59:31 +0200
Artur Pydo <artur@pydo.org> wrote:

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| I know that there is a workaround
| modifying 'auditfile' by hand as it is a ascii file.
| 
| I suggest that in future one avoid setting vulnerable versions as > 0
| because the update fails as long as the reference file has not been
| updated with the correct vulnerable port later.
| 
| In this case it would be much more efficient to set 'png<1.2.5_3'
| from the beginning.

imvho the drawbacks of this solution outweight its usefulness.

If a commit does not solve the problem but makes the port to look not
vulnerable, and I'm a very sloppy or very overworked sysadmin, I might not
notice.
Would you prefer me sweating around the upgrade of something I know is
patched, but portaudit prevents me from portupgrading, or my cracked
zombie machine pounding at your network while I'm slacking off? :)

Just my 2 cents

Frankye



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