Re: Incomplete OpenPKG reference in apache_log_injection.nasl

Jan Fredrik Leversund <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Renaud Deraison wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 03:59:36PM +0200, Jan Fredrik Leversund wrote:
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>>script_xref(name:"OpenPKG-SA", value:"OpenPKG-SA-2004.021-apache");
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>Fixed, thanks !
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Maybe it shouldn't have been fixed afterall...

All SUSE references seem to suffer from a similar problem. The 
Announcement IDs are formatted like this: SUSE-SA:YYYY:NNN where YYYY is 
the yeah and NNN is the announcement number for that year. Trouble comes 
when you want to reference it, and all their advisory pages are named 
YYYY_NNN_package.html and sometimes the NNN is just NN, depending on 
which year YYYY is. On top of that, anything pre-2002 is not to be found 
anywhere on their site... It's all very unstructured.

So what it comes down to is this: Should the nessus references try to 
compensate for this kind of odd behaviour, or should the references be 
as simple as possible? Afterall, it IS possible to find the information 
based on the simple form, it just takes a bit of manual searching.

I'm fresh out of silver bullets...

-- 
Jan Fredrik Leversund <[email protected]>
Phalanx Security Services <URL:http://www.phalanx.no/>

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