Fixes for vuxml processing

In my previous post, I mentioned problems encountered with processing vuxml entries for horde4-imp. The problem was not specific to a particular port, but came to light because a vuln was registered for a port, and then later removed. I tracked down the cause to not clearing out statistics before processing the new vulnerabilities. This post shows the fix I have come up with.

The table which was not being updated properly was the ports_vulnerable table. This table looks like this:

freshports.org=# \d ports_vulnerable
    Table "public.ports_vulnerable"
 Column  |  Type   |     Modifiers      
---------+---------+--------------------
 port_id | integer | not null
 current | integer | not null default 1
 past    | integer | not null default 0
Indexes:
    "ports_vulnerable_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (port_id)
Foreign-key constraints:
    "$1" FOREIGN KEY (port_id) REFERENCES ports(id) ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE CASCADE

freshports.org=# 

The issue was easily resolved with this patch:

--- scripts/process_vuxml.pl	2006/12/17 12:04:02	1.2
+++ scripts/process_vuxml.pl	2011/10/02 17:29:20	1.3
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 #
-# $Id: process_vuxml.pl,v 1.2 2006/12/17 12:04:02 dan Exp $
+# $Id: process_vuxml.pl,v 1.3 2011/10/02 17:29:20 dan Exp $
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2001-2004 DVL Software
 #
@@ -36,7 +36,13 @@ sub EmptyVuXML($) {
 	$sql = "DELETE FROM vuxml";
 	$sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
 	if (!$sth->execute())  {
-		FreshPorts::Utilities::ReportError('warning', "Could not execute sql", 1);
+		FreshPorts::Utilities::ReportError('warning', "Could not execute sql: " . $sql, 1);
+	}
+
+	$sql = "DELETE FROM ports_vulnerable";
+	$sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
+	if (!$sth->execute())  {
+		FreshPorts::Utilities::ReportError('warning', "Could not execute sql: " . $sql, 1);
 	}
 }
 

With patch, I’m clearing out the table each time a new vuln.xml file is processed. However, that is not enough. Whenever a record is removed from this table, the cache for that port needs to be updated.

The following post will queue up a cache deletion request for each delete on the ports_vulnerable table:

--- database-schema/ri.txt	2008/09/09 13:02:38	1.45
+++ database-schema/ri.txt	2011/10/02 17:30:40	1.46
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 --
--- $Id: ri.txt,v 1.45 2008/09/09 13:02:38 dan Exp $
+-- $Id: ri.txt,v 1.46 2011/10/02 17:30:40 dan Exp $
 --
 -- Copyright (c) 1998-2007 DVL Software Limited
 --
@@ -254,6 +254,42 @@ CREATE TRIGGER ports_clear_cache
     EXECUTE PROCEDURE ports_clear_cache();
 
 
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ports_vulnerable_delete_clear_cache() RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$
+   DECLARE
+      l_cache_clearing_ports_id   int8;
+      l_port      text;
+      l_category  text;
+   BEGIN
+		IF TG_OP = 'DELETE' THEN
+         SELECT port_id
+           INTO l_cache_clearing_ports_id
+           FROM cache_clearing_ports
+          WHERE port_id = OLD.port_id;
+          
+          IF NOT FOUND THEN
+            SELECT category, name
+              INTO l_category, l_port
+              FROM ports_all
+             WHERE id = OLD.port_id;
+            INSERT INTO cache_clearing_ports (port_id, category, port)
+            VALUES (OLD.port_id, l_category, l_port);
+          END IF;
+
+          NOTIFY port_updated;
+    END IF;
+
+      -- when a port changes, add an entry to the cache clearing table
+      RETURN OLD;
+   END
+$$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
+
+  DROP TRIGGER ports_vulnerable_delete_clear_cache ON ports_vulnerable;
+CREATE TRIGGER ports_vulnerable_delete_clear_cache
+    AFTER DELETE on ports_vulnerable
+    FOR EACH ROW
+    EXECUTE PROCEDURE ports_vulnerable_delete_clear_cache();
+
+

I’ve tried this in dev, and in production, and staging. It seems to be the right thing to do.

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