Re: Number of CVE entries in a plugin

Renaud Deraison <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:52:56 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:36:58PM +0200, Yorick Koster wrote:
> First of all, how safe is it to alter the array size of the cve_id
> variable in the plugin struct (store.h). Does this in any way break
> other parts in the Nessus code?

This won't, but this will break backward compatibility - ie: if you
release a plugin with 42 CVE ids, then it will work on your copy of
nessusd but not on the one people using 2.0.7 and older use.

				-- Renaud