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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:59:28 -0500
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        "Philip Paeps" <philip@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org, "secteam@FreeBSD.org" <secteam@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: git: 0e79ec27f04a - main - security/vuxml: add FreeBSD SAs  issued on 2024-10-29
Message-ID:  <6929eebd-7e6a-4718-9829-83bd340fb1e1@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2161D3CF-3A52-46CC-ACD3-D94ADEC11AAC@freebsd.org>
References:  <202411130421.4AD4LUrj054403@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <fc55ea06-bb1a-4bee-a6eb-62da3ad653ff@app.fastmail.com> <2161D3CF-3A52-46CC-ACD3-D94ADEC11AAC@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Nov 15, 2024, at 5:04 AM, Philip Paeps wrote:
> On 2024-11-13 21:36:49 (+0100), Dan Langille wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2024, at 11:21 PM, Philip Paeps wrote:
>>> +  <vuln vid="ce0f52e1-a174-11ef-9a62-002590c1f29c">
>>> +    <topic>FreeBSD -- Certificate revocation list fetch(1) option 
>>> fails</topic>
>>> +    <affects>
>>> +      <package>
>>> +	<name>FreeBSD</name>
>>> +	<range><ge>14.1</ge><lt>14.1_6</lt></range>
>>
>> I want to find a way that this does not raise false positives. Philip, 
>> we have discussed this before and I'm not saying you are the one to 
>> fix this.
>
> I've put this on the agenda for our next secteam call (Monday).  We've 
> discussed this before, but we never converged on a solution.  From my 
> notes: because we always had a kernel version bump in the pipeline 
> shortly after.  Clearly we shouldn't hope for that to happen every time, 
> and we need a structural solution for this.
>
> We'll talk about it again on Monday and see if we can come up with 
> something better.

freebsd-version comes to mind, but I'm not sure how useful that would be.

> Meanwhile: should we revert this vuxml entry until we either find a 
> solution, or bump the kernel version (whichever comes first)?  I'd 
> estimate that this particular bug is triggering rather more false 
> positives than actually vulnerable installations.

I'm OK with leaving it.

-- 
  Dan Langille
  dan@langille.org



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