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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:15:30 -0500
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        John Bayly <john.bayly@tipstrade.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Clarrification on whether portsnap was affected by the 2012 compromise
Message-ID:  <20121120121530.GC88593@in-addr.com>
In-Reply-To: <50AB6029.4090608@tipstrade.net>
References:  <50AB6029.4090608@tipstrade.net>

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On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:49:13AM +0000, John Bayly wrote:
> Regarding the 2012 compromise, I'm a little confused as to what was and
> wasn't affected:
> 
> >From the release:
> > or of any ports compiled from trees obtained via any means other than
> > through svn.freebsd.org or one of its mirrors
> Does that mean that any ports updated using the standard "portsnap
> fetch" may have been affected, I'm guessing yes.
> 

" We have also verified that the most recently-available portsnap(8) snapshot matches the ports Subversion repository, and so can be fully trusted. "



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