On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:35:43 +0100
Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:38:34AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > According to audit-packages, fetchmail-6.2.5.5nb1 has a security
> > hole. When I go to its directory and do a 'make', it builds it
> > without noticing the problem.  My pkgsrc is up-to-date (HEAD), as
> > is my audit-packages and the vulnerabilities file it uses.  (This
> > is on -current from about two weeks ago.)
> 
> Do you have ALLOW_VULNERABLE_PACKAGES set in your environment or in
> mk.conf?
> 

No:

# set|grep ALLOW_VULNERABLE_PACKAGES
# grep ALLOW_VULNERABLE_PACKAGES /etc/mk.conf

Btw, the same seems to be happening for print/acroread7.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb