From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 16:59:15 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F0744A0 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:59:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (khavrinen.csail.mit.edu [IPv6:2001:470:8b2d:1e1c:21b:21ff:feb8:d7b0]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "khavrinen.csail.mit.edu", Issuer "Client CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6114B8 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t0NGxCQw000339 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL CN=khavrinen.csail.mit.edu issuer=Client+20CA) for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:59:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.csail.mit.edu (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t0NGxCkv000336; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:59:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <21698.32224.747971.146491@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:59:12 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Strange package checksum report X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 22) "Instant Classic" XEmacs Lucid X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (khavrinen.csail.mit.edu [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:59:13 -0500 (EST) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:33:06 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:59:15 -0000 On some of my machines, I've been noticing the following in the nightly security mail: Checking for packages with mismatched checksums: p5-XML-SAX-0.99_2: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/UserDict.pyc python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/_weakrefset.pyc python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/abc.pyc python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/codecs.pyc python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/copy_reg.pyc python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/encodings/__init__.pyc [ a bunch of other .pyc files elided ] Does anyone know what causes this? Force-reinstalling the package fixes it, but only temporarily -- by the time the next security mail comes, it's back in this state. -GAWollman