From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 05:50:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 611421065693; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 05:50:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ade@FreeBSD.org) Received: from panix.lovett.com (panix.lovett.com [166.84.7.128]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 363328FC0C; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 05:50:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cpe-66-68-128-204.austin.res.rr.com ([66.68.128.204] helo=[172.16.32.150]) by panix.lovett.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1POOXg-0000sY-UW; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:50:49 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Ade Lovett In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 23:50:27 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <38CFD0A3-0B0A-49E9-8420-E593CFD24A99@FreeBSD.org> References: <20101202232206.66c672a1@ukr.net> <17BFBD62-414E-448B-A3CE-825C9467138E@mac.com> To: Chuck Swiger X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Cc: Ivan Klymenko , Rob Farmer , freebsd-ports Ports , Ade Lovett Subject: Re: ftp/proftpd 1.3.3c with a version which contained a backdoor. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:50:52 -0000 On Dec 02, 2010, at 17:56 , Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Dec 2, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Rob Farmer wrote: >>=20 >> For several hours on Wednesday the distinfo was updated to the >> compromised version (it has been reverted), so anyone who updated = this >> port recently should check their system. >=20 > I see-- that's useful information to be aware of. Hopefully port = maintainers practice a bit more wariness about distfiles changing = unexpectedly; while it's common enough that people re-roll tarballs for = whatever reason, it seems like there have been more incidents of = reference sites getting owned... If ya'll are _absolutely_ certain that the current distfile is correct = and not compromised then I would _strongly_ recommend that you bump = PORTREVISION to make it absolutely obvious that folks see this. -aDe