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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2018 08:44:35 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, ports-secteam@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SQLite vulnerability
Message-ID:  <20181217084435.GC4757@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.OFS.7.76.444.1812160753280.5993@mx.roble.com>
References:  <nycvar.OFS.7.76.444.1812160753280.5993@mx.roble.com>

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On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 08:13:59AM -0800, Roger Marquis wrote:
> Thanks to Chrome{,ium} a recently discovered SQLite exploit has been all
> over the news for a week now.  It is patched on all Linux platforms but
> has not yet shown up in FreeBSD's vulxml database.  Does this mean:
>=20
>   A) FreeBSD versions prior to 3.26.0 are not vulnerable, or
>=20
>   B) the ports-secteam is not able to properly maintain the vulnerability
>   database?
>=20
> If the latter perhaps someone from the security team could let us know
> how such a significant vulnerability could go unflagged for so long and,
> more importantly, what might be done to address the gap in reporting?

Almost certainly:

  C) This vunerability was reported in a random blog post on a Sunday
  without any details so people haven't caught up with it yet.

-- Brooks

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