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.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Oliver Eikemeier. All rights reserved.
.\"
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd March 11, 2004
.Os FreeBSD
.Dt PORTAUDIT \&1 "FreeBSD ports collection"
.
.
.Sh NAME
.
.Nm portaudit
.Nd system to check installed packages for known vulnerabilities
.
.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.
.Nm
.Op Fl a
.Op Fl V
.Op Fl d
.Op Fl F
.
.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.
.Nm
checks installed packages for known vulnerabilities and generates reports
including references to security advisories. Its audience are system
administrators or individual users.
.Pp
It uses a database maintained by port committers and the FreeBSD security team
to check if security advisories for any installed packages exist. Note that a
current ports tree (or any local copy of the ports tree) is not required for
operation.
.Pp
This package also installs two scripts into %%PREFIX%%/etc/periodic that
regularly update this database and include the report of vulnerable packages
in the daily security report.
.Pp
If you have a vulnerable package installed, you are advised to update or
deinstall it immediately.
.
.
.Sh OPTIONS
.
The following options are supported:
.Bl -tag -width ".Fl X"
.It Fl a
Print a vulnerability report for all installed packages
.It Fl F
Fetch the current database from the
.Fx servers
.It Fl d
Print the creation date of the database
.It Fl V
Print the version of
.Nm .
.El
.
.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.
.Bl -item
.It
Fetch the current database and print its creation date:
.Pp
.Dl "portaudit -F -d"
.It
Print a vulnerability report for all installed packages:
.Pp
.Dl "portaudit"
.El
.
.
.Sh FILES
.
.Pa %%PREFIX%%/etc/portaudit.conf ,
.Pa %%DATABASEDIR%%/auditfile.tbz
.
.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.
.Xr ports 7 ,
.Xr periodic 8 ,
.Xr periodic.conf 5 ,
.Li Aq http://people.freebsd.org/~eik/portaudit/ ,
.Li Aq http://www.freebsd.org/security/#adv ,
.Li Aq http://www.vuxml.org/ .
.
.
.Sh CAVEATS
.
The format of
.Pa %%DATABASEDIR%%/auditfile.tbz
might change.
.
.
.Sh BUGS
.
Sure to be some.
.
.
.Sh AUTHOR
.
.An Oliver Eikemeier Aq eik@FreeBSD.org
.
.
.Sh HISTORY
.
package auditing first appeared in
.Nx 1.4.3 .
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