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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2002 06:14:45 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/drweb Makefile distinfo ports/security/drweb/files patch-aa patch-ab
Message-ID:  <20020522021445.GA92135@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020521173029.A36618@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200205211516.g4LFGeo82331@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020521151814.F31955@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020521235911.GA91185@nagual.pp.ru> <20020521173029.A36618@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 17:30:29 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Yes; it's a rule we apply to all ports committers.  Please see
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/port=
s.html#Q10.4.4.

I disagree with that. It seems this rule mix porter and security officer
tasks. As porter what I do I port application. As porter, I already check
that "distfile has not been corrupted". But it is security officer, who
must find out, if distfile is "maliciously altered", comparing differences
at whole and analyzing code with debugger, especially for _binary_ port
like drweb! It is security officer who must educate developer to not
re-roll their distfiles like written: "otherwise the author or maintainer
should be contacted to find out why the distfile has changed."

> It's not a very demanding requirement; just do a diff -ruN and inspect
> the changes visually.  If the changes are significant then just note
> as such.  The main thing you're looking for are changes which were
> inserted into the distfile maliciously.

The changes are:

drweb:
Binary daemon changed.
Config files changed.

drweb-sendmail:
*.o *.a removed
Config files changed.

It is what I find out during the porting. I have no time and energy to=20
detalize it more and I am not sure even that this list is complete!

--=20
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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