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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:30:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: [tor-relays] FreeBSD 11.1 ZFS Tor Image
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Shawn Webb wrote:
> There's no need for ROP, JOP, SROP, etc. on FreeBSD. FreeBSD is
> literally stuck in 1999-era security.

This is doubly true for ports, including Tor.  I submitted a vuxml entry
for apache-tomcat 5 days ago that still has not been committed.  A
follow-up resulted in two replies from a helpful member of the
ports-secteam, but which took as long to write as the vulxml would have
taken to validate and commit.  Its CVE is priority 7 (remotely
exploitable) but almost a week later pkg audit still won't tell you if
you're running an exploitable Tomcat.

The explanation I received is that the ports-secteam is a volunteer
effort and nobody really expects 'pkg audit' to be timely anyhow.

Such easily fixable problems.  Even the FreeBSD Foundation for all the
projects it funds, and could fund with +$2.5M in the bank, doesn't seem
to care.

Roger Marquis



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