[AusNOG] Network Monitoring Systems [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Wilkinson, Alex]

    0n Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:26:15AM +1000, Tim Warnock wrote: 

    >> I'm interested: How do you peeps keep track of installed packages and
    >> deal with security advisories?  Is there a free solution for that?
    >
    >For Debian (and possibly any other deb based platform): cron-apt.

For FreeBSD: /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portaudit which uses the VuXML index.

e.g.

   #/usr/local/sbin/portaudit -Fda
   auditfile.tbz                                 100% of   59 kB   63 kBps
   New database installed.
   Database created: Wed 10 Feb 2010 10:35:03 WST
   Affected package: linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32
   Type of problem: linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities.
   Reference:
   <http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/3c1a672e-e508-11de-9f4a-001b2134ef46.html>
   
   Affected package: linux-f10-pango-1.22.3
   Type of problem: pango -- integer overflow.
   Reference:
   <http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/4b172278-3f46-11de-becb-001cc0377035.html>
   
   2 problem(s) in your installed packages found.
   
   You are advised to update or deinstall the affected package(s) immediately.

  -Alex

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