From owner-freebsd-security Thu Dec 21 13:52:49 2000 From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 13:52:47 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (henry.cs.adfa.edu.au [131.236.21.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC2D37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:52:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA69407; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:56:20 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey Message-Id: <200012212156.IAA69407@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: Security Update Tool.. In-Reply-To: from Some Person at "Dec 16, 2000 00:16:29 am" To: Some Person Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:56:20 +1100 (EST) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: wkt@cs.adfa.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article by Some Person: > My question is, is there a util yet that in theory (maybe if so, or if > someone writes one would work differently than what I'm imagining) queries a > central database with all the security advisories, checks the local system > for comparisons and vulnerabilities against that database and reports to the > user who ran the util. See the KuangPlus prototype at http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/KuangPlus/index.html Still needs an awful lot of work to do. Perhaps someone could pick it up as an Open Source project? Cheers, Warren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message