Albert Whale wrote:
Does this function exist? Because if it was available and produced the recommended RPM List (per the OS requested from the /etc/mandrake-release), we could automate this issue for Nessus.
Vincent Danen wrote:
Smarter minds than mine will have to figure that out. I've used nessus forThat's an excellent Idea.
scanning a few times, but never really looked at it's internals. I'm sure
you could probably accomplish something with NASL (I think that's what their
scripting language is called).
It would actually be pretty simple (I would think) to "ask" MandrakeSecure
about a CVE name and see if returns a mandrake advisory number and (for the
GUI junkies out there) make it a clickable link to the web advisory.
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