Re: More than one OS Identified: correct one and HP-UX 9.05
Michel Arboi <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.nessus.general |
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| Organization | Nessus |
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On Wednesday 13 August 2008 17:34:40 Mogren, Jack L. wrote: > Problem: I run scans of about 80 devices on a monthly basis. This > month, for many machines Nessus is reporting more than one OS, > specifically it is reporting the correct OS and then also reporting the > identified OS as HP-UX 9.0.5. Could you send me the report (just the part about the OS identification)? And if possible, the extract of the KB (grep "Host/OS/") > This generates a "critical" error as HP-UX 9.0.5 is no longer a supported > OS. This other plugin is supposed to ignore the result of the recognition if the "confidence" is too low. I'll fix that. > My question is why is Nessus identifying more than one OS Because the method which it used cannot distinguish two close versions of the same OS, probably (just guessing) _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus