Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: >>>>>I'd prefer to reserve FORBIDDEN for those cases where the ports >>>>>present some danger. Those who want a more strict policy can use >>>>>portaudit or similar, right? >>>> >>>>I guess we have to add a severity tag then, to enable `soft' >>>>vulnerabilities. I have an automated script that barks on unmarked >>>>vulnerabilities, and it can't decide which vulnerability is >>>>`important'. >>> >>>Yes, I wanted to avoid this. Severity is sooo subjective. I prefer >>>that people close to the port make the severity judgement--- if the >>>maintainer or a fellow committer believes the item is severe, then let >>>them mark it FORBIDDEN. That is why I said `FWIW' above--- if you >>>believe it is severe, then please by all means leave it FORBIDDEN. >>>However, I had the impression that you were marking it only because it >>>was listed in the VuXML document. >> >>Sure. Severity is subjective, and I'm not in the position to decide what >>is considered severe enough to advise people to not use it. >> >>The security team are the people who should judge which vulnerabilites are >>severe enough to issue a warning, not the users. That is what they are there >>for. Users can ignore advisories if they decide to do so. > > One could say that the VuXML document *is* the collection of issued > warnings. Users can ignore it, they can peruse it `in the raw' or at > http://vuxml.freebsd.org/, or they can use a tool such as portaudit to > enforce local policy based on the VuXML document. > > It's a bit harder for users' to ignore it when a port is marked > FORBIDDEN. Thus the reason I do not think that *every* issue that > goes into the VuXML document should cause the corresponding port to be > marked FORBIDDEN. Hell, in many cases, the issues depend upon local > configuration or the options with which the port was built. Marking > a port FORBIDDEN unconditionally doesn't make sense if only users who > build it with `-DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE' are affected :-) While we are at it: port www/squid24 is listed in 705e003a-7f36-11d8-9645-0020ed76ef5a. Is this serious? Isn't it? Who should decide? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"