On 2012-08-10 16:40, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Roberto <rober...@redix.it> wrote: >> >> So as far I understand, if the kernel is not updated by the update process, >> it >> is not possible to get via "uname" the currently patch level. > > Correct. > > This has been discussed a number of time, but there are no nice and > simple solution. There is a simple solution if we just update the > kernel always, but that's a hack IMO. > > While the problem seems rather simple, there are many corner cases > making it hard to solve. It should be solved so people can get this > information, personally I just haven't had the time to work on it. >
Maybe this information can be hold in an additional file, see http://cpe.mitre.org/ There is no guaranty root modifies the cpe files but thats the same for all systems which have cpe already implemented. -- Regards, olli _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
