Re: Nessus plugin output...

"Renaud Deraison (lists)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Hi Kevin,


On Apr 28, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Kevin Chak wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have questions on some plugins' outputs.
> I've tried the plugins for OS identification. However, I got a weird  
> case. If I do scanning with the plugin 'os identification'(#11936)  
> only, I get the reports on the remote hosts; if I enable all the  
> individual os identification plugins(HTTP, uname, RDP, etc.) except  
> #11936 one, I get 'No Vulnerability Found'. #11936 plugin have  
> identified my two remote hosts by using uname and LinuxDistribution.  
> I tried only turning on the plugins of these two methods and scan,  
> but I still got 'No Vulnerability Found'. What's wrong with that?

This is the expected behavior. Basically, plugin #11936 uses the  
results of all the other plugins which are silent. If you want to only  
enable a given method (say, HTTP only), you'd need to disable the  
automatic dependencies option, and you'd need to enable plugin #11936  
in addition to the detection method you wish to use.

>
>
> Another question is about service identification. I've tried using  
> the plugin 'Identify unknown service with GET'(#17975) and 'Service  
> identification (2nd pass)'(#11153) to scan my hosts, but I got 'No  
> Vulnerability Found'. Do I suppose to get some results?

Did you enable a port scanner ? You need to select one if you want  
service detection to take place. You also want to enable plugin#10330  
(Find services).


				-- Renaud

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