On Fri Sep 26, 2003 at 09:17:36AM -0400, Albert Whale wrote:

> >>Smarter minds than mine will have to figure that out.  I've used 
> >>nessus for
> >>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.
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >That's an excellent Idea.
> >
> 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.

No, it doesn't.  I can easily make it return the CVE name; that would be a
10 minute thing I'm guessing.  Returning the rpm list is the interesting
part.  This would be no different than your chart.

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