i have seen false positives with NetApps
running the smbd service, but have not
run into any other instances of false 
positives on 45K+ hosts..

~cam.

Cam Beasley
Information Security Office
The University of Texas at Austin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Kyle Sayre
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 18:46
> To: Shane Williams
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: ms04-011
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, I meant to say smb_kb835732.nasl, but is has been a long 
> day. We have seen fully patched machines show up as vulnerable. They 
> have been rebooted, in some cases special netapps that aren't running 
> windows, and in some cases windows 2003 server that are fully 
> patched. 
> On a standard scan we are seeing ~double the amount of ips showing up 
> as vulnerable on nessus as we are on the foundstone scanner. This is 
> one of the reasons that I am wondering if they are both 
> testing for the 
> CAN-2003-0533 vulnerability. We spot checked a couple systems that 
> nessus said were vulnerable, and foundstone said were not vulnerable, 
> and they were not vulnerable.
> 
> I would appreciate any help,
> David Sayre
> Los Alamos National Labs
> 
> On Apr 30, 2004, at 5:15 PM, Shane Williams wrote:
> 
> > I don't see a ms_kb835732.nasl (perhaps you meant 
> ms_kb835732_ssl.nasl 
> > (12204)), but we've been using smb_kb835732.nasl (12209) 
> without any 
> > false positives.  We have seen a few where the update has 
> been applied 
> > but the machine hasn't been rebooted, but as I understand 
> it they're 
> > still vulnerable so it's not quite a false positive.
> >
> > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, David Kyle Sayre wrote:
> >
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> We would like to use nessus for scanning for the 
> vulnerability in the 
> >> CAN-2003-0533. We have tried to use ms_kb835732 which covers the 
> >> ms04-011 patch, but we are getting a lot of false 
> positives over the 
> >> dsscan utility available from foundstone.com. I was wondering if 
> >> anyone was working on a better test for the CAN-2003-0533 
> >> vulnerability?
> >>
> >> On a separate note, ftp://www.cert.mil is not available, 
> to I could 
> >> find (I did look through google) which one of the plethora of 
> >> vulnerabilities in ms04-011 this was. Could anyone enlighten me?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> David Sayre
> >> Los Alamos National Labs
> >>
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