On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Xin LI wrote: >> Also, it would be nice if such an advisories advance kern.osreldate, >> so auditfile could check this automatically; e.g., I have 4.9-RELEASE-p11, >> which isn't vulnerable to this problem, but kern.osreldate is still 490000 >> there. If Security Officer bumps src/sys/conf/newvers.sh, why he doesn't >> bump src/sys/sys/param.h? > > I think it is not applicable to bump param.h, as it represents an ABI change, > which a security update should not introduce. (just my $0.02 :-) Then it should be another possibility to get release "patch level" - maybe by parsing kern.osrelease? In any case, it would be nice to add such a check, so portaudit won't complain when base system isn't vulnerable. Sincerely, Dmitry -- Atlantis ISP, System Administrator e-mail: [email protected] nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"