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Date:      Fri, 20 May 2022 14:53:50 +0200
From:      =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
To:        Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
Cc:        Florian Smeets <flo@smeets.xyz>, Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>, Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu@freebsd.org>,  ports FreeBSD <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ClamAV security update
Message-ID:  <CAGwOe2YbxhPMm8t-acxZRyyBMFGx59Z=mjTYz79LcEVWBNHTYg@mail.gmail.com>
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El vie., 20 may. 2022 14:50, Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> escribi=C3=
=B3:

> Thank you Florian!  If there are any policy changes that can be made to
> prevent this sort of issue (critical vulnerabilities not getting patches
> or not showing up in vuln.xml for days or weeks after a CVE and/or
> update) please do recommend them to, well, who does set ports/security
> management policies?
>

It helps if the PR contains the "security" keyword and sets "affects many
people". That way it is easier for committers to notice which PRs might be
critical.


> Roger Marquis
>
>
> > On 19.05.22 09:30, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> I see Clamav 0.105.0, 0.104.3 and 0.103.6 were released on May 5th, th=
e
> >> latter two closing "several CVE fixes".
> >>
> >> However, the port was not updated and not even portaudit entries were
> >> added.
> >>
> >> Was this overlooked?
> >> Are the FreeBSD ports somehow not affected?
> >>
> >
> > I created a patch and PR a week ago. I was waiting for the maintainer
> > timeout. After discussing with bapt I went ahead and committed the
> update
> > without approval of the maintainer.
> >
> > IMHO, security fixes should be specifically mentioned in the blanket
> section.
> >
> > Florian
> >
>
>

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<div dir=3D"auto"><div><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" =
class=3D"gmail_attr">El vie., 20 may. 2022 14:50, Roger Marquis &lt;<a href=
=3D"mailto:marquis@roble.com">marquis@roble.com</a>&gt; escribi=C3=B3:<br><=
/div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-le=
ft:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you Florian!=C2=A0 If there are a=
ny policy changes that can be made to<br>
prevent this sort of issue (critical vulnerabilities not getting patches<br=
>
or not showing up in vuln.xml for days or weeks after a CVE and/or<br>
update) please do recommend them to, well, who does set ports/security<br>
management policies?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></di=
v><div dir=3D"auto">It helps if the PR contains the &quot;security&quot; ke=
yword and sets &quot;affects many people&quot;. That way it is easier for c=
ommitters to notice which PRs might be critical.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br=
></div><div dir=3D"auto"><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gm=
ail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-le=
ft:1ex">
<br>
Roger Marquis<br>
<br>
<br>
&gt; On 19.05.22 09:30, Andrea Venturoli wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt; <br>
&gt;&gt; Hello.<br>
&gt;&gt; <br>
&gt;&gt; I see Clamav 0.105.0, 0.104.3 and 0.103.6 were released on May 5th=
, the <br>
&gt;&gt; latter two closing &quot;several CVE fixes&quot;.<br>
&gt;&gt; <br>
&gt;&gt; However, the port was not updated and not even portaudit entries w=
ere <br>
&gt;&gt; added.<br>
&gt;&gt; <br>
&gt;&gt; Was this overlooked?<br>
&gt;&gt; Are the FreeBSD ports somehow not affected?<br>
&gt;&gt; <br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I created a patch and PR a week ago. I was waiting for the maintainer =
<br>
&gt; timeout. After discussing with bapt I went ahead and committed the upd=
ate <br>
&gt; without approval of the maintainer.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; IMHO, security fixes should be specifically mentioned in the blanket s=
ection.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Florian<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div></div></div>

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