Re: package auditing in fedora

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Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Jaigh Jaddo writes:
>
>> Is there a tool similar to freeBSD's portaudit? Something that will
>> report packages that have known vulnerabilities.
>
> No. For the simple reason that a known vulnerability results in an
> updated package. If you want to make sure that you're not running
> any known vulnerability, run "yum update".

There can be known vulnerabilities that are not fixed yet.  I thought
that was what Jaigh was asking about, and this is the sort of info
that's in the fedora-security/audit files.

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