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Date:      Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:05:24 -0400
From:      "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.net>
To:        Eli Dart <dart@nersc.gov>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: apache2 port
Message-ID:  <20040930210524.GT243@cowbert.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040930210232.8B81BF987@gemini.nersc.gov>
References:  <20040930205503.GS243@cowbert.net> <20040930210232.8B81BF987@gemini.nersc.gov>

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if PORTVERSION isn't 2.0.51 then you shouldn't be getting anything in 2.0.51
(if you say the vulnerability was only introduced with 2.0.51).

This should really be in the ports@ list.

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:02:32PM -0700, Eli Dart wrote:
>=20
> In reply to "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.net> :
>=20
> > no. you can tell by PORTVERSION in the Makefile.
>=20
> That still doesn't cover the case of the vulnerability being=20
> introduced by the patch....
>=20
> Unless I'm truly missing something....
>=20
> 		--eli
>=20
>=20
> >=20
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:45:16PM -0700, Eli Dart wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >=20
> > > There has been another vulnerability [1] discovered in apache2.  This=
=20
> > > affects only version 2.0.51 (where it was introduced).  The ports=20
> > > tree is frozen, pending 5.3-R, so I assume that an update of the=20
> > > apache2 port to 2.0.52 is not forthcoming any time soon.
> > >=20
> > > The question is this -- since the apache2 in the ports tree is 2.0.50=
=20
> > > plus patches, does the version in the ports tree have this=20
> > > vulnerability?  It seems that it only would if the patches to 2.0.50=
=20
> > > introduced the vulnerability...  Does anyone know?
> > >=20
> > > Thanks!
> > >=20
> > > 		--eli
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > --=20
> > Peter C. Lai
> > University of Connecticut
> > Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
> > Yale University School of Medicine
> > SenseLab | Research Assistant
> > http://cowbert.2y.net/
> >=20
>=20
>=20



--=20
Peter C. Lai
University of Connecticut
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
SenseLab | Research Assistant
http://cowbert.2y.net/



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