On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 08:13:59AM -0800, Roger Marquis wrote:
> Thanks to Chrome{,ium} a recently discovered SQLite exploit has been all
> over the news for a week now.  It is patched on all Linux platforms but
> has not yet shown up in FreeBSD's vulxml database.  Does this mean:
> 
>   A) FreeBSD versions prior to 3.26.0 are not vulnerable, or
> 
>   B) the ports-secteam is not able to properly maintain the vulnerability
>   database?
> 
> If the latter perhaps someone from the security team could let us know
> how such a significant vulnerability could go unflagged for so long and,
> more importantly, what might be done to address the gap in reporting?

Almost certainly:

  C) This vunerability was reported in a random blog post on a Sunday
  without any details so people haven't caught up with it yet.

-- Brooks

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