Subject: pkg/11463: audit-packages too strict about old vulnerability list
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <itojun@itojun.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/10/2000 00:56:10
>Number: 11463
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: audit-packages too strict about old vulnerability list
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Nov 10 00:56:00 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
>Release: <NetBSD-current source date>
>Organization:
itojun.org
>Environment:
System: NetBSD starfruit.itojun.org 1.5J NetBSD 1.5J (STARFRUIT) #270: Fri Nov 10 11:07:50 JST 2000 itojun@starfruit.itojun.org:/usr/home/itojun/NetBSD/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/STARFRUIT i386
>Description:
audit-packages from audit-packages-1.2 is too strict about old
vulnerability list file. for example, the last update for the package
vulnerability list is october 27.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
1. do not check for timestamp.
2. warn about old timestamp, and continue on (do not die).
3. do not preserve timestamp on download-vulnerability-list.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
>-rw-r--r-- 1 itojun wheel 2142 Oct 27 01:48 vulnerabilities
download-vulnerability-list tries to preserve the original timestamp,
so you will always get the file with October 27 timestamp.
now, today is nov10, and as audit-packages will die if vulnerabilities
list is more than 7 days old, i can never check for package
vulnerability.