PKG-AUDIT(8) BSD System Manager's Manual PKG-AUDIT(8)NAME
pkg audit — audit installed packages against known vulnerabilities
SYNOPSIS
pkg audit [-Fqr] [-f filename] pkg-name
pkg audit [--{fetch,quiet,recursive}] [--file filename] pkg-name
DESCRIPTION
pkg audit checks installed packages for known vulnerabilities and gener‐
ates reports including references to security advisories. Its intended
audience is system administrators and individual users.
pkg audit 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.
The URL that is used to fetch the database can be overridden via the VUL‐
NXML_SITE config variable. See pkg.conf(5) for more information.
If you have a vulnerable package installed, you are advised to update or
deinstall it immediately.
Supplying a pkg-name will audit only that package.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported by pkg audit:
-f filename, --file filename
Use filename as the local copy of the vulnerability database. If
used in combination with -F download the vulnerability database to
the named filename before auditing installed ports against it.
-F, --fetch
Fetch the database before checking.
-q, --quiet
Be ``quiet''. Prints only the requested information without dis‐
playing many hints.
-r, --recursive
Prints packages that depend on vulnerable packages and are thus
potentially vulnerable as well.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of pkg audit.
See pkg.conf(5) for further description.
PKG_DBDIR
VULNXML_SITE
FILES
See pkg.conf(5).
SEE ALSOpkg_printf(3), pkg_repos(3), pkg-repository(5), pkg.conf(5), pkg(8),
pkg-add(8), pkg-annotate(8), pkg-autoremove(8), pkg-backup(8),
pkg-check(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(8), pkg-convert(8), pkg-create(8),
pkg-delete(8), pkg-fetch(8), pkg-info(8), pkg-install(8), pkg-lock(8),
pkg-query(8), pkg-register(8), pkg-repo(8), pkg-rquery(8), pkg-search(8),
pkg-set(8), pkg-shell(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8), pkg-stats(8),
pkg-update(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-upgrade(8), pkg-version(8),
pkg-which(8)BSD October 30, 2014 BSD
